Definitions for penalties

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penalties pen·al·ty

Spelling: [pen-l-tee]

IPA: /ˈpɛn l ti/

Penalties is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 747 anagrams from letters in penalties (aeeilnpst).

Definitions for penalties

noun

1. a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
2. a loss, forfeiture, suffering, or the like, to which one subjects oneself by nonfulfillment of some obligation.
3. something that is forfeited, as a sum of money.
4. a disadvantage imposed upon one of the competitors or upon one side for infraction of the rules of a game, sport, etc.
5. consequence or disadvantage attached to any action, condition, etc.

Origin of penalties

1505-15; ≪ Medieval Latin poenālitās. See penal, -ty²

Examples for penalties

Second, penalties need to be increased for lying or deliberately withholding relevant requested information from Congress.

Liberia also has some of the strongest rape laws and penalties on the continent.

The penalties are set in stone through 2016, but after that they will remain at $695 per year, plus inflation.

For each there exists a normal rate of travel, beyond which are penalties.

It is one of the penalties of Protestantism that the audiences, after a while, outgrow the preacher.

He has no identification tag; he releases Peabody; seems not to know the penalties.

All the penalties will not be light, nor evenly distributed.

Ill-considered remedies for our faults bring only penalties after them.

Despite committing 13 penalties, the Iroquois roared back from a late 8-3 deficit to notch it at 8-8 before giving up a late goal.

That year they ugly-chained it all the way to the final, lost on penalties to Brazil, and I decided to abandon them.