| 单词 | penalty |
| 释义 | penalty (once / 229 pages) n A penalty is a punishment or consequence for doing something wrong, such as having to pay a fee for not bringing your library book back when it was due. In hockey, players who break the rules have to sit in "the penalty box." Just like the penalty box punishes hockey players, all penalties are punishments for doing something wrong. Going to prison is the penalty for serious crimes. Detention is the penalty for misbehaving in school. Often, penalty applies to payments people have to make for breaking a financial contract of some kind. WORD FAMILYpenalty: penalise, penalize, penalties+/penalise: penalisation, penalised, penalises, penalising/penalize: penalization, penalized, penalizes, penalizing USAGE EXAMPLESThe start of the penalty phase, originally set for Tuesday, was pushed back a day. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) For instance, that bill eliminated the tax penalties, tax credits and cost-sharing subsidies central to the ACA’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Any suspect who steps forward would face a misdemeanor trespassing charge — a penalty equivalent to “a slap on the hand,” Ramirez said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition neglected his health and paid the penalty Ant|Hyper advantage, reward benefit resulting from some event or action disadvantage the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position 2n (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game Hypo|Hyper game misconduct (ice hockey) a penalty that suspends a player for the remainder of a game (but allows the team to send in a substitute for the suspended player) handicap advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning 3n a payment required for not fulfilling a contract Hypo|Hyper requital, retribution a justly deserved penalty forfeit, forfeiturea penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something amercement, fine, mulctmoney extracted as a penalty library finefine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned payment a sum of money paid or a claim discharged 4n the act of punishing Syn|Hypo|Hyper penalisation, penalization, punishment, sanction castigation, chastisement verbal punishment corporal punishmentthe infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime cruel and unusual punishmentpunishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed detentiona punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home correction, disciplinethe act of punishing economic strangulationpunishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them imprisonmentputting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment medicine, musicpunishment for one's actions self-punishmentpunishment inflicted on yourself stickthreat of a penalty penance, self-abasement, self-mortificationvoluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whackingthe act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows self-flagellationself-punishment inflicted by whipping spankingthe act of slapping on the buttocks electric shockthe use of electricity to administer punishment or torture capital punishment, death penalty, executing, executionputting a condemned person to death gantlet, gauntleta form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim kick in the buttpunishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind lapidation, stoningthe act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) social control control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
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