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PENALISATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of punishing
Synonyms:
penalisation; penalization; penalty; punishment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("penalisation" is a kind of...):
social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "penalisation"):
castigation; chastisement (verbal punishment)
corporal punishment (the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime)
cruel and unusual punishment (punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed)
detention (a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home)
correction; discipline (the act of disciplining)
economic strangulation (punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them)
imprisonment (putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment)
medicine; music (punishment for one's actions)
self-punishment (punishment inflicted on yourself)
stick (threat of a penalty)
penance; self-abasement; self-mortification (voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing)
Derivation:
penalise (impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on)
