Penalty vs Diktat - What's the difference?
penalty | diktat |
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.
a harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor
a dogmatic decree, especially issued by one who rules without popular consent
*2005 , Vitaly Naumkin, Radical Islam in Central Asia: Between Pen and Rifle ,
dictate
As nouns the difference between penalty and diktat
is that penalty is a legal sentence while diktat is a harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor.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.
Derived terms
* penalty arc * penalty box * penalty kick * penalty area * penalty phase * penalty shot * penalty shoot-out * penalty spotSee also
* free kickAnagrams
* ----diktat
English
Noun
(en noun)page 179
- It should be noted that Saddam's power was held up by fear and diktat .
