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What does penalise mean?

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Verb
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of penalize.
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It was right on the edge of the area and there was definite contact, but the ref didn't penalise the chippy Irishman.
Dolan said he was baffled by referee Mike Jones' failure to penalise Exeter for delaying tactics at restarts and throw-ins.
That amendment would penalise drug companies if they lodged spurious patent claims designed to prevent cheap generic drugs entering the market.
The above indices were then used to multiply, that is, to bonify or penalise correct or faulty sortings of the group as a whole.
Crowley, for his part, was puzzled by the referee's decision to penalise him.
A pro-family government wouldn't use family payments to penalise women who want to work and contribute a few dollars a week to the family income.

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