Meaning of PENALTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'penltee
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- [n] the act of punishing
- [n] the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition; "neglected his health and paid the penalty"
- [n] a payment required for not fulfilling a contract
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| | Synonyms: | | penalisation, penalization, punishment |
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| | Antonyms: | | advantage, reward | | |
| | See Also: | | amercement, castigation, chastisement, corporal punishment, correction, cruel and unusual punishment, detention, disadvantage, discipline, economic strangulation, fine, forfeit, forfeiture, imprisonment, medicine, mulct, music, payment, penance, requital, retribution, self-abasement, self-mortification, self-punishment, social control, stick | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pe"nal*ty\, n.; pl. {Penalties}. [F. p['e]nalit['e].
See {Penal}.]
1. Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the
suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or
judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense,
or trespass.
Death is the penalty imposed. --Milton.
2. The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a
person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case
of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine.
The penalty and forfeit of my bond. --Shak.
3. A handicap. [Sporting Cant]
Note: The term penalty is in law mostly applied to a
pecuniary punishment.
{Bill of pains and penalties}. See under {Bill}.
{On}, or {Under}, {penalty of}, on pain of; with exposure to
the penalty of, in case of transgression.
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