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What is the noun for penalties?

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penalty
  1. A legal sentence.
  2. A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
  3. (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
  4. (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
  5. (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.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The maximum penalty for breaking such an order is five years in prison.”
      “Given his precarious financial standing, the goldsmith would not have been able to pay a penalty of several hundred ducats.”
      “If the decision were based on perfect information, there would, of course, be no economic penalty, since the risk of failure would not be a realistic alternative.”
penality
  1. The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.
  2. Examples:
    1. “One imagines that, given the harshness of retribution and the softness of positivistic welfare, that the latter would lead to a more lenient penality.”
      “It is also possible to curtail your stay without penality if you advise us more than 2 weeks before your arrival.”
      “The consultant is free to accept or to refuse these missions without penality.”
penalization
  1. The act of punishing; punishment.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The United States far outstrips all advanced nations in the international trend towards the penalization of social insecurity.”
      “Failure to do so may result in severe penalization and even a re-approval may be requested if the violation is performed repeatedly.”
      “Instead of seeking help, women are going underground for fear of penalization.”
penalism
  1. A policy of imposing penalties.
penalisation
  1. Alternative spelling of penalization
penalizer
  1. One who or that which penalizes.
penalties
  1. plural of penalty
  2. (plural only, informal) A penalty shootout.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Will farmers face loss of EU payments or penalties if they have a stocking rate above 0.8 of a cow per acre?”
      “Too often the switching is not done in time and payments are missed, accruing considerable embarrassment and penalties.”
      “Anyone who aids the terrorist bombers will be deemed accessories after the fact to Murder, and subject to the most serious penalties.”
penalisations
  1. plural of penalisation
penalizations
penalizers
  1. plural of penalizer
penalities
  1. plural of penality
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