rə̇ˈtalyəˌtōrē, rēˈ-, -lēəˌ-, -tȯr-, -ri, ÷-ləˌ- adjective
: tending to, involving, or having the nature of retaliation
from retaliatory political revenge the transition was easy to pillage and wholesale murder — J.A.Froude
deterrent force of our retaliatory air power — Dean Acheson
the retaliatory sanction of blood revenge on the part of animal ghosts — W.H.Gilbert