Usually means: Punishment imposed for breaking rules.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. penalty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. penalty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. penalty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. penalty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. penalty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Penalty, penalty: Wordnik
  7. penalty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. penalty: Wiktionary
  9. penalty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. penalty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. penalty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. penalty: Dictionary.com
  13. penalty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Penalty (American football), Penalty (Brazilian sports manufacturer), Penalty (Mormonism), Penalty (association football), Penalty (contract), Penalty (golf), Penalty (gridiron football), Penalty (ice hockey), Penalty (rugby), Penalty (rugby union), Penalty (sports manufacturer), Penalty, The Penalty (novel), The Penalty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Penalty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. penalty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. penalty: Rhymezone
  18. penalty, penalty, penalty (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. penalty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. penalty: Free Dictionary
  21. penalty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. penalty: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. penalty: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Medicare Glossary (No longer online)
  8. MSN Money (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. The Penalty, penalty: Legal dictionary
  11. The Penalty, penalty: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penalty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Penalty (ice hockey): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penalty: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penalty: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Penalty: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A legal sentence.
▸ noun:  A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
▸ noun:  (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
▸ noun:  In sports
▸ noun:  (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
▸ noun:  (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
▸ noun:  A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.

Similar:
punishment, penalization, penality, infraction, Penally, sanction, fines, offence, penalised, perjury, more...

Opposite:
reward, benefit, incentive, bonus, advantage

Types:
fine, jail time, probation, community service, suspension, expulsion, more...

Phrases:
death penalty, the penalty, under penalty, civil penalty, penalty function, more...

Adjectives:
maximum, severe, same, heavy, extreme, civil, full, legal, criminal, only, financial

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Similar:
punishment, penalization, penality, infraction, Penally, sanction, fines, offence, penalised, perjury, more...

Opposite:
reward, benefit, incentive, bonus, advantage

Types:
fine, jail time, probation, community service, suspension, expulsion, more...

Phrases:
death penalty, the penalty, under penalty, civil penalty, penalty function, penalty tax, penalty area, penalty phase, tax penalty, penalty clause, prepayment penalty, Marriage penalty, penalty kick, penalty box, more...

Adjectives:
maximum, severe, same, heavy, extreme, civil, full, legal, criminal, only, financial

Colors:
    red,     yellow,     black,     white,     blue, more...



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