"utu" meaning in English

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        "Compensation for a wrong suffered; reciprocal exchange or payment; (loosely), payback, revenge."
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        "(New Zealand) Compensation for a wrong suffered; reciprocal exchange or payment; (loosely), payback, revenge."
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