Utu
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Utu is a noun meaning (New Zealand) Compensation for a wrong suffered; reciprocal exchange or payment; (loosely), payback, revenge.
Meaning
(New Zealand) Compensation for a wrong suffered; reciprocal exchange or payment; (loosely), payback, revenge.
Example Sentences
The match had been touted as a chance for utu after the 1999 and 2007 All Blacks World Cup defeats.
Utu demanded that both favors and grievances be repaid in kind, but it was the grievances, naturally, that caused the most trouble.
Utu determined that relations among individuals, and between families, communities and tribes, were governed by mutual obligation and an implicit keeping of social accounts […].
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tut, ur, comeuppance, payback, recompense, recompence.
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