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Read the excerpt from "Benin Plaque: The Oba with Europeans." Whatever the real facts, the British, in ostensible revenge for the killing, organized a punitive expedition which raided Benin City, exiled the Oba and created the protectorate of Southern Nigeria. Based on the context clues, what is the meaning of the word punitive in the passage? determined to find natural resources intended to make peace designed to inflict punishment planned by world leaders

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C - designed to inflict punishment

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The context and use of the term punitive in this case the best way to define this term is designed to inflict punishment.

How can we define the word punitive?

Can be define as For the purpose of punishing: punitive expedition. For exemple "Social contributions operate as a punitive tax on labor and, as a result, purely industrial labor is leaving the country."

In the case of context, we can only adhere to the term with the meaning of assigning a punishment to someone.

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