penalty
Meaning
- A legal sentence.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
- In sports
- In sports
- A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pen‧al‧ty
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpɛnəlti/
Etymology
From Middle French pénalité.
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