Penalty vs Reprimand - What's the difference?
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A legal sentence.
A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
* 1900', , Chapter I,
(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 severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
* Macaulay
To reprove in a formal or official way.
* 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
As nouns the difference between penalty and reprimand
is that penalty is while reprimand is a severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.As a verb reprimand is
to reprove in a formal or official way.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
* ----reprimand
English
Noun
(en noun)- Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.
Verb
(en verb)- He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope: