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For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.
Louis MacNeice

Meaning of "tit for tat" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TIT FOR TAT

From earlier tip for tap.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TIT FOR TAT

tit for tat play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TIT FOR TAT

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tit for tat is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TIT FOR TAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tit for tat

Tit for tat

Tit for tat is an English saying meaning "equivalent retaliation". It is also a highly effective strategy in game theory for the iterated prisoner's dilemma. The strategy was first introduced by Anatol Rapoport in Robert Axelrod's two tournaments, held around 1980. Notably, it was both the simplest strategy and the most successful. An agent using this strategy will first cooperate, then subsequently replicate an opponent's previous action. If the opponent previously was cooperative, the agent is cooperative. If not, the agent is not. This is similar to superrationality and reciprocal altruism in biology.

Definition of tit for tat in the English dictionary

The definition of tit for tat in the dictionary is an equivalent given in return or retaliation; blow for blow.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TIT FOR TAT

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WORDS THAT END LIKE TIT FOR TAT

aerostat
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Synonyms and antonyms of tit for tat in the English dictionary of synonyms

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SYNONYMS OF «TIT FOR TAT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tit for tat» and belong to the same grammatical category.
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Translation of «tit for tat» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TIT FOR TAT

Find out the translation of tit for tat to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tit for tat from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tit for tat» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

针锋相对
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ojo por ojo
570 millions of speakers

English

tit for tat
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जैसे को तैसा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

واحدة بواحدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

око за око
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

olho por olho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উলকি জন্য টিপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tac au tac
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tit untuk tat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Retourkutsche
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

仕返し
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

문신 에 대한 짹
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyenengake kanggo tat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trả thù người nào
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டேட் என்ற தலைப்பில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ठोसा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tat için baştankara
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pan per focaccia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wet za wet
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

око за око
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dinte pentru dinte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οφθαλμόν αντί οφθαλμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tit vir tat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lika för lika
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tit for tat
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tit for tat

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QUOTES WITH «TIT FOR TAT»

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Louis MacNeice
For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIT FOR TAT»

Discover the use of tit for tat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tit for tat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tit for Tat
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Jane Grace Smith, 2008
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Politics from Anarchy to Democracy: Rational Choice in ...
Assuming, as we have before, that the payoff to mutual cooperation is 3, the average per-period payoff in any game involving Tit for Tat and Generous Tit for Tat is 3. Suppose now that a behaviorally distinct mutation, Suspicious Tit for Tat,  ...
Irwin Lester Morris, Joe A. Oppenheimer, Karol Edward Sołtan, 2004
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A Beautiful Math:: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern ...
A reputation as a tit-for-tat player will induce opponents to cooperate with you, knowing that if they do, you will. And if they don't, you won't. Alas, the story gets even more complicated. Just because tit for tat won Axelrod's tournament, that ...
Tom Siegfried, 2006
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Game Theory: A Critical Text
We consider this line of argument in more detail in the next chapter and turn now to a formal demonstration that Tit-for-Tat can be a Nash equilibrium in an indefinitely repeated version of the Prisoner's Dilemma. 5.5.2 Tit-for-Tat as a Nash ...
Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Yanis Varoufakis, 2004
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Game Theory and Public Policy
What we have found is that, if the probability of another round of play is great enough,8 in this example, a tit-for-tat rule by one player will make it unprofitable for the other player to deviate from cooperative behavior. If each player plays ...
Roger A. McCain, 2009
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Game Theory and the Social Contract: Playing fair
The GRIM strategy gets its name because it differs from TIT-FOR-TAT in being utterly unforgiving. Nothing the opponent can do will serve to persuade GRIM to leave its punishment state once it has been triggered. The strategy TWEETYPIE is ...
K. G. Binmore, 1994
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Conflict, Cooperation and Institutions in International ...
Tit-for-tat strategy An alternative punishment strategy is Tit-for-tat. The Tit-for-tat strategy became famous after Anatol Raporport won a series of Prisoner's Dilemma computer tournaments by using this strategy (Axelrod 1984). The Tit-for- tat ...
Ines Dombrowsky, 2007
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Game Theory and the Law
When 8 is sufficiently high, one such strategy is a version of tit-for-tat. A firm playing the strict tit-for-tat strategy begins by charging a high price and then charging a low price only if its rival charged a low price in the preceding period.
Douglas G. Baird, Robert H. Gertner, Randal C. Picker, 1998
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Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-centered Introduction to ...
Show that for a sufficiently low discount rate for each of the players, Tit-for-Tat is a Nash equilibrium. b. What is the largest discount rate that can support a Tit-for-Tat Nash equilibrium? c. Show that Tit-for-Tat is not subgame perfect. Hint: If a ...
Herbert Gintis, 2000
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Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct
Eventually, tit-for-tat became the most prolific strategy in Axelrod's computer- simulated ecology. By the end of the thousandth generation, almost 15 percent of the organisms were using tit-for-tat (recall that it constituted only 1 out of every 63  ...
Michael McCullough, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TIT FOR TAT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tit for tat is used in the context of the following news items.
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Zimbabwe deportation 'tit for tat'
A South African mother claims Zimbabwean immigration officers deported her 12-year-old daughter on arrival in Harare in a "tit for tat game". «Times LIVE, Jul 15»
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Russia: Tit for Tat
Russians liked the tit-for-tat decision to ban dozens of Western politicians from entering Russia, as a response to Western banning of Russian politicians from ... «Intifada Palestine, Jun 15»
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US-Russia military tit for tat raises fears of greater conflict
Washington (CNN) The war of words between America and Russia is escalating. So, too, is the movement of implements of war -- from U.S. fighter jets to ... «CNN, Jun 15»
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Tit for tat? Indian Yogis denied visas to Pakistan
NEW DELHI: While preparations are underway to celebrate International Yoga Day around the world, it appears Indian diplomats in Islamabad may not be able ... «The Express Tribune, Jun 15»
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Tit for tat: Jets reportedly slap Patriots with Darrelle Revis tampering …
Watching the rival Patriots win the Super Bowl was a bitter pill that the Jets had to swallow, but New York was able to give New England a small taste of its own ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
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Tit for tat: Jordan executes 2 terrorist prisoners after ISIS kills pilot
This still image made from video released by Islamic State group militants and posted on the website of the SITE Intelligence Group on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 ... «Inquirer.net, Feb 15»
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Grapevine: Tit for tat
But there is obviously no love lost between them, and given the way Netanyahu has treated Rivlin, one cannot help wondering if there will be tit for tat following ... «Jerusalem Post, Jan 15»
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Tit for tat? Pakistan seizes two Indian fishing boats off Gujarat coast
It's being perceived as a possible 'tit-for-tat' action by an angry Pakistan, but no conclusions have been drawn yet as such abductions of straying fishing boats ... «Times of India, Jan 15»
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Russia Seeks Sanctions Tit for Tat
MOSCOW — The Russian Parliament on Wednesday took the first major step to authorize the Kremlin to seize foreign assets and use them to compensate ... «New York Times, Oct 14»
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Harry Reid Slams 'Tit for Tat' Media: Press Should Just Blame GOP …
It feels like a tit-for-tat game....you don't belief there's any tit-for-tat going on ... So, you can give me the tit for tat all you want, but the fact is we want to legislate. «NewsBusters, May 14»

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