Reparation vs Penalty - What's the difference?
reparation | penalty |
(usually in plural) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s).
* Dryden
The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.
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.
As nouns the difference between reparation and penalty
is that reparation is fix, repair while penalty is .reparation
English
Noun
(en noun)- I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.
- the reparation of a bridge or of a highway
Synonyms
* (a payment) restitution, compensation, amends, satisfaction * (a renewing) restoration, repairSee also
* war reparationsAnagrams
* ----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.
