Penalty

Noun

 * 1) A legal sentence.
 * The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
 * 1) A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
 * 2) *1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
 * Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
 * 1)  A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
 * 2)  A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box.
 * 3)  A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
 * A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.

Related terms

 * penal
 * penality

Adjectives for Penalty
tremendous; painful; mad; inescapable; grievous; similar; severe; proportionate; efficient; enrolled; suitable; spiritual; barbarous; fearful; easy.

Verbs for Penalty
accept—; assert—; assess—; balk at—; condemn to—; decry—; escape—; entail—; evade—; exact—; impose—; inflict—; levy —; —atones; —recompenses; —rehabilitates.

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

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: κύρωση (círosi), ποινή (piní) , τιμωρία (timoría)
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: pionós


 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: sods
 * Lithuanian: bausmė
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: penalizare, pedeapsă
 * Russian:, взыскание,
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic:
 * Catalan: càstig
 * Chinese: 惩罚 (chéngfá)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: sopimussakko, sopimuskorvaus
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: αντίτιμο (a[n]dítimo), τιμωρία (timoría)
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: pionós


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 罰 (ばつ, batsu)
 * Korean: 형벌 (hyeongbeol)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: rangaistuslaukaus
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: πέναλτι (pénalti), η εσχάτη των ποινών (i eskháti ton pinín)
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Irish: pionós
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian:, straffespark
 * Romanian: penalti
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: enajstmetrovka
 * Swedish:, straffspark


 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish: pionós


 * Swedish: utvisning

Derived terms

 * penalty arc
 * penalty box
 * penalty kick
 * penalty area
 * penalty phase
 * penalty shot
 * penalty shoot-out
 * penalty spot

Anagrams

 * aplenty, netplay

Noun

 * , penalty kick

Etymology
Borrowed from