Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To subject (a person) to a penalty, especially for infringement of a law or regulation. synonym: punish.
- transitive verb To make (an action or a condition) liable to a penalty.
- transitive verb To impose a handicap on; place at a disadvantage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To lay under a penalty, in ease of violation, falsification, or the like: said of regulations, statements, etc.; subject, expose, or render liable to a penalty: said of persons. Also spelled
penalise . - To affix what amounts to a penalty to some act that is not in itself a penal offense; to subject to a disadvantage; handicap.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make penal.
- transitive verb (Sport.), engraving To put a penalty on. See
Penalty , 3.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
subject to apenalty , especially for theinfringement of arule orregulation . - verb transitive, sports To
impose ahandicap on.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on
Etymologies
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Examples
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I will vote for him with or without her (yes i would like her on the ticket .... but will not "penalize" him if he does not pick her).
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Some might argue an off-peak plan could "penalize" riders who have no choice but to ride at peak hours, like those with a fixed work schedule.
Alex Pasternack: Why New York Subway Chief's Congestion Pricing Idea Makes Cents 2009
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For all you Mc-haters out there, Denver may be passing provocative legislation that will financially "penalize" builders of mega-sized houses.
July 2007 2007
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For all you Mc-haters out there, Denver may be passing provocative legislation that will financially "penalize" builders of mega-sized houses.
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This administrator further indicated that 75-80 percent of students do take "3 years of math and science", but then indicated that it would "penalize" the remaining 25% to require them to do it.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
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A lot of them, you know, John Travolta and Tommy Lee Jones -- you don't get the sense of, you know, wanting to kind of penalize an actor or a star whereas there's been a lot of bitterness about CEOs because the sense is that there's a public trust aspect to it.
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Note that progressives here are unthinkingly using the standard Republican framing of taxation issues -- a bicycle fee would "penalize" the "worthy" among us -- as well as fulminating in faux populist us vs. them terms.
BlueOregon 2009
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Note that progressives here are unthinkingly using the standard Republican framing of taxation issues -- a bicycle fee would "penalize" the "worthy" among us -- as well as fulminating in faux populist us vs. them terms.
BlueOregon 2009
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Note that progressives here are unthinkingly using the standard Republican framing of taxation issues -- a bicycle fee would "penalize" the "worthy" among us -- as well as fulminating in faux populist us vs. them terms.
BlueOregon 2009
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Note that progressives here are unthinkingly using the standard Republican framing of taxation issues -- a bicycle fee would "penalize" the "worthy" among us -- as well as fulminating in faux populist us vs. them terms.
BlueOregon 2009
uselessness commented on the word penalize
There are two ways to pronounce this word. Can you guess which one I hate more?
January 27, 2007