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noun (penalties)
- A legal sentence.
- The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- (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.
- (Icehockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
- A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.
Translations: - Dutch:
- Dutch, penalty , strafschop
- French: tir de pénalité
(trans-mid)
- German: Strafstoí� , Freistoí�
- Italian: penalití
- Spanish: castigo
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