释义 |
under (or on) penalty ofUnder the threat of: he ordered enterprises to fulfil contracts under penalty of strict fines...- Should employees then be required, under penalty of not getting any redundancy, to change from one culture of organisation to another, albeit on paper it is simply a name change?
- You mean the ones declared illegal by the republic under penalty of long painful death?
- It says, ‘I hereby declare under penalty of election falsification, that the statements above are true as I verily believe.’
See parent entry: penalty |