Penalties Definition

noun
Punishment in the form of fines or prison terms imposed on wrongdoers. Although normally applied in criminal cases, there are some cases of civil misdeeds for which a penalty (as distinct from a remedy) may be imposed.
Webster's New World Law
Damages imposed by a contract for failing to meet a certain obligation, such as completion by the agreed-upon date.
Webster's New World Law

Plural form of penalty.

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(plural only, informal) A penalty shootout.
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Penalties Sentence Examples

  • The commonest of all penalties was a fine.

  • The cour dassises occupies itself entirely with offences of the most serious type, classified under the penal code as crimes, in accordance with the severity of the penalties attached.

  • Laws and penalties in protection of property were enforced by the tribe.

  • The canons respecting the clergy exhibit the clergy as already a special class with peculiar privileges, a more exacting moral standard, heavier penalties for delinquency.

  • In 1724 Louis XV., again assuming that there were no Protestants in France, prohibited the most secret exercise of the Reformed religion, and imposed severe penalties.

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