Penalty vs Assessment - What's the difference?
penalty | assessment | Synonyms |
A legal sentence.
A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
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(finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
(football) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
(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.
The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
An appraisal or evaluation.
As nouns the difference between penalty and assessment
is that penalty is a legal sentence while assessment is the act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.penalty
English
(wikipedia penalty)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(penalties)- The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
- Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
- A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.