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n. A punishment established by law or authority for a crime or offense.

n. Something, especially a sum of money, required as a forfeit for an offense.

n. The disadvantage or painful consequences resulting from an action or condition: neglected his health and paid the penalty.

n. Sports A punishment, handicap, or loss of advantage imposed on a team or competitor for infraction of a rule.

n. Sports An infraction of a rule; a foul.

n. Games Points scored in contract bridge by the opponents when the declarer fails to make a bid. Often used in the plural.

n. A legal sentence.

n. A punishment for violating rules of procedure.

n. A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.

n. A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box.

n. A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.

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.

n. Suffering, in person or property, as a punishment annexed by law or judicial decision to a violation of law; penal retribution.

n. The loss or burden to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement in ease of the non-fulfilment of an obligation; the forfeiture or sum to be forfeited for non-payment, or for non-compliance with an agreement: as, the penalty stipulated in a bond.

n. Money recoverable by virtue of a penal statute; a fine; a mulct.

n. Hence The painful consequences which follow some particular course of action, or are invariably attached to some state or condition: as, the penalty of carelessness, or of riches; he paid the penalty of his rashness.

n. the act of punishing

n. (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game

n. a payment required for not fulfilling a contract

n. the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition

"The penalty for stealing _property_ was a mere _property penalty_."

under penalty of   

disadvantage   

disadvantage    handicap    on    bill of pains and penalties    small penalties act    free kick   

penal   

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

forfeiture    fine    handicap   

punishment    sentence    imprisonment    burden    consequence    reward    trial    threat    restriction    responsibility