Penalty
['pen(ə)ltɪ] or ['pɛnəlti]
Definition
(noun.) (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game.
(noun.) the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition; 'neglected his health and paid the penalty'.
(noun.) a payment required for not fulfilling a contract.
Typed by Beryl--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.
(n.) The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine.
(n.) A handicap.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Punishment, penal retribution.[2]. Forfeiture, fine.
Checked by Evita
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pain, punishment, forfeiture, price, fare, retribution, amercement
ANT:Guerdon, wages, reward, premium, prize, douceur, sop, bribe, honorarium,compensation, remuneration
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Definition
n. punishment: suffering in person or property for wrong-doing or for breach of a law: a fine or loss which a person agrees to pay or bear in case of his non-fulfilment of some undertaking: a fine.—Under penalty of so as to suffer or (after a negative) without suffering the punishment of.
Editor: Lucius
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you have penalties imposed upon you, foretells that you will have duties that will rile you and find you rebellious. To pay a penalty, denotes sickness and financial loss. To escape the payment, you will be victor in some contest.
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Examples
- Therefore, those who had died at his hands must have seen him and paid the penalty with their lives. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty, and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- And if any person compounds with the hundred for less than this penalty, he is to be imprisoned for five years; and any other person may prosecute. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The course of action is not intrinsically satisfying; it is a mere means for avoiding some penalty, or for gaining some reward at its conclusion. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The first two modes of payment are intelligible enough, but what the penalty is I do not understand, or how a penalty can be a payment. Plato. The Republic.
- It is right that I should be chastened in some penalty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- On the other hand, the majority of the populace unquestionably would demand that we pay the penalty of our sacrilege. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- If imported in ships of any other country, the penalty is forfeiture of ship and goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You have achieved so much, Lady Dedlock, said my guardian, that you pay some little penalty, I dare say. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Besides the forfeiture of the goods, the exporter incurs the penalty of 3s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I am feeling the penalty at laSt. My nervous system is shattered; my nights are nights of horror. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This penalty of being jiggered was a favorite supposititious case of his. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I have paid the penalty. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Before the thirteenth century the penalty of death had been inflicted but rarely upon heretics and unbelievers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The curse of Ate is on thee, they cry pitifully, nor will the goddess be satisfied until she has exacted her due penalty for neglect of the Olympians. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Let his fortune be what it will, whether he is or is not able to pay those heavy penalties, the law means to ruin him completely. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If mine exacts its pains and penalties all round, so must hers, I suppose. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I was not allowed to call him uncle, under the severest penalties. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I foresee, in spite of the penalties which it exacts from me, that I shall have to return to the opium for the hundredth time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My immediate comrade and I talked in an undertone about quarantine laws and their penalties, but we found nothing cheering in the subject. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But the penalties of smuggling must arise in proportion to the temptation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The educational equivalents of this doctrine in the uses made of pleasurable rewards and painful penalties are only too obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The prohibition, notwithstanding all the penalties which guard it, does not prevent the exportation of wool. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In 1910 the American Banker estimated that there were 1,198 corporations with 8,110 subsidiaries liable to all the penalties of the Sherman Act. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Daniel Doyce faced his condition with its pains and penalties attached to it, and soberly worked on for the work's sake. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- These, said Er, were the penalties and retributions, and there were blessings as great. Plato. The Republic.
- In statecraft the penalties and rewards are tremendous. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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