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单词 penal
释义
penal
(pnəl )
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Penal means relating to the punishment of criminals.
...director-general of penal affairs at the justice ministry.
...penal and legal systems.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
A penal institution or colony is one where criminals are kept as punishment.
...imprisoned on an island that has served as a penal colony since Roman times.
Synonyms: disciplinary, punitive, corrective, penalizing  
Collocations:
penal reform
Penal reform campaigners said the sentencing crackdowns were the worst sort of politics.
Times,Sunday Times
Penal reform groups said that the proposal was setting up people with chaotic lives to fail.
Times, Sunday Times
Prison governors and penal reform groups say that they would be difficult to control and would result in inmates being 'warehoused'.
Times, Sunday Times
Here, a leading voice on penal reform argues long periods on bail blight lives.
The Sun
Penal reform campaigners say art makes lags less likely to reoffend.
The Sun
penal sanctions
When it came to penal sanctions, no officeholder could impose a fine over fifty drachmas.
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Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to penal sanctions for breaches of contract of employment by indigenous workers.
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It sought to codify the general use of penal sanctions for breach of contract by workers against their employers.
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In a free state, no political authority has the right to define historical truth and to restrain the freedom of the historian with the threat of penal sanctions.
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penal system
It also flags serious concern for how the 27-yearold will fare in the future now that he has been exposed to the penal system.
Times, Sunday Times
So later this year we will introduce legislation for an overhaul of policing, and set out proposals for reform of the penal system.
Times, Sunday Times
Hundreds of thousands of others laboured, and still continue to labour, under appalling conditions in the country's penal system.
Times, Sunday Times
But our penal system remains one of the great unreformed public services.
Times, Sunday Times
Putting rehabilitation at the heart of our penal system will make a good start.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 有关刑罚的
Japanese: 刑事上の
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