Sanctions vs Reprimand - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sanctions and reprimand

is that sanctions is while reprimand is a severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

is that sanctions is (sanction) while reprimand is to reprove in a formal or official way.

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(en noun)

A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

* Macaulay

Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.

(en verb)

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.

He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope:

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