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penalty
noun
1 penalty
The act of punishing.
synonyms: penalisation, penalization, punishment.
Roget 971:
condemnation,
conviction,
judgment,
penalty,
sentence;
proscription,
damnation;
death warrant.
attainder,
attainture†,
attaintment†.
Roget 972:
punishment,
punition†;
chastisement,
chastening;
correction,
castigation.
discipline,
infliction,
trial;
judgment;
penalty
etc.
974;
retribution;
thunderbolt,
Nemesis;
requital
etc.
(reward)
973;
penology;
retributive justice.
lash,
scaffold
etc.
(instrument of punishment)
975;
imprisonment
etc.
(restraint)
751;
transportation,
banishment,
expulsion,
exile,
involuntary exile,
ostracism;
penal servitude,
hard labor;
galleys
etc.
975;
beating
etc.
v.;
flagellation,
fustigation†,
gantlet,
strappado†,
estrapade†,
bastinado,
argumentum baculinum [Lat.],
stick law,
rap on the knuckles,
box on the ear;
blow
etc.
(impulse)
276;
stripe,
cuff,
kick,
buffet,
pummel;
slap,
slap in the face;
wipe,
douse;
coup de grace;
torture,
rack;
picket,
picketing;
dragonnade†.
capital punishment;
execution;
lethal injection;
the gas chamber;
hanging
etc.
v.;
electrocution,
rail-riding,
scarpines†;
decapitation,
decollation†;
garrotte,
garrotto [It];
crucifixion,
impalement;
firing squad;
martyrdom;
auto-da-fe [Fr.];
noyade†;
happy dispatch.
[suicide as punishment]
hara-kiri,
seppuku [Jap.];
drinking the hemlock.
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Roget 974:
penalty;
retribution
etc.
(punishment)
972;
pain,
pains and penalties;
weregild†,
wergild;
peine forte et dure [Fr.];
penance
etc.
(atonement)
952;
the devil to pay.
fine,
mulct,
amercement;
forfeit,
forfeiture;
escheat [Law],
damages,
deodand†,
sequestration,
confiscation,
premunire [Lat.];
doomage [U.S.].
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Dutch: boetedoening, afstraffing, bestraffing, repressie, straf
Polish: karanie, wyciąganie konsekwencji
2 penalty
A payment required for not fulfilling a contract.
3 penalty
The disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition.
4 penalty
games A handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game.
Dutch: straf
Moby thesaurus: abatement, acquittal, agio, allowance, amercement, bank discount, breakage, burden, burthen, cargo, cash discount, castigation, chain discount, charge, charge-off, chastening, chastisement, concession, condemnation, condign punishment, correction, cross, cumbrance, cut, deadweight, decision, deduction, depreciation, deserts, difficulty, disadvantage, disciplinary measures, discipline, discount, drawback, embarrassment, encumbrance, ferule, fine, forfeit, freight, hamper, handicap, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, imprisonment, incarceration, inconvenience, infliction, judgment, judicial punishment, kickback, landmark decision, load, lumber, mulct, nemesis, onus, pack, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty clause, penance, penology, percentage, premium, price, price reduction, price-cut, punishment, punition, rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, retribution, retributive justice, rollback, salvage, scourge, sentence, setoff, tare, time discount, trade discount, tret, trouble, underselling, verdict, weight, well-deserved punishment, what-for, white elephant, write-off ... show more.
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