retribution

n 1: a justly deserved penalty [syn: {requittal}]

2: the act of correcting for your wrongdoing

3: the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation

for something harmful that they have done) especially in

the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the

Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing.

This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James

Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed

him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" [syn: {vengeance}]

distribution

1. A software source tree packaged for

distribution; but see {kit}.

2. A vague term encompassing {mailing list}s and

{Usenet} {newsgroup}s (but not {BBS} {fora}); any

topic-oriented message channel with multiple recipients.

3. An information-space domain (usually loosely

correlated with geography) to which propagation of a {Usenet}

message is restricted; a much-underused feature.

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