Dictionary Definition
penalty
Noun
2 a payment required for not fulfilling a
contract
3 the disadvantage or painful consequences of an
action or condition; "neglected his health and paid the penalty"
[ant: advantage]
4 (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is
imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules
of the game
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A legal sentence.
- The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
- A direct free-kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box.
- 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.
Translations
legal sentence
punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 惩罚 (chéngfá)
- Dutch: straf
- Finnish: sopimussakko, sopimuskorvaus
- French: peine
- German: Strafe
- Greek: αντίτιμο (a[n]dítimo) , τιμωρία (timoría)
- Hungarian: büntetés, bírság
- Italian: penalità
- Japanese: 罰 (ばつ, batsu)
- Korean: 형벌 (hyeongbeol)
- Polish: kara
- Portuguese: penalidade
- Russian: штраф (štraf)
- Spanish: castigo
- Swedish: straff
free-kick in football
- Czech: penalta
- Dutch: penalty , strafschop
- Finnish: rangaistuslaukaus
- French: tir de pénalité
- German: Strafstoß , Freistoß
- Greek: πέναλτι (pénalti) , η εσχάτη των ποινών (i eskháti ton pinín)
- Hungarian: tizenegyes, büntetőrúgás
- Swedish: straff
punishment in ice hockey
- Finnish: rangaistus, jäähy
- Swedish: utvisning
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
A penalty is generally a punishment, and may
refer to:
In law:
In sports:
- Penalty (ice hockey)
- Penalty (rugby)
- Penalty (Brazilian sports manufacturer)
- Penalties in American football
- Penalty, sometimes used to refer to any of various fouls in sports and games
- Penalty area, part of a football (soccer) field
- Penalty box, in ice hockey
- Penalty kick in football (soccer)
- Penalty
shootout, a method of determining a winner in sports matches
- Penalty shootout (football), for football (soccer)
- Penalty shot (ice hockey)
In arts and entertainment:
- The Penalty (film), an American crime film starring Lon Chaney
- The Penalty (novel), a sports novel for children by Mal Peet
- Penalty Records, a record label
penalty in German: Penalty
penalty in Japanese: ペナルティ
penalty in Norwegian: Straff
penalty in Portuguese: Penalty
penalty in Simple English: Penalty
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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