Usually means: Penalties for rules or conduct violations.
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  1. demerits: Merriam-Webster
  2. demerits: Collins English Dictionary
  3. demerits: Vocabulary.com
  4. Demerits, demerits: Wordnik
  5. demerits: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. demerits: Wiktionary
  7. demerits: Dictionary.com
  8. demerits: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (demerit)

noun:  A quality of being inadequate; a disadvantage, a fault.
noun:  A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.
noun:  That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To deserve.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To depreciate or cry down.
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