Punishment vs. Penalty

Punishmentnoun

The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.

Punishmentnoun

A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

Punishmentnoun

A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution

Punishmentnoun

(figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling

Punishmentnoun

The act of punishing.

Punishmentnoun

Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.

Punishmentnoun

A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

Punishmentnoun

Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment.

Punishmentnoun

the act of punishing

Punishment

Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular action or behavior that is deemed undesirable or unacceptable. It is, however, possible to distinguish between various different understandings of what punishment is.The reasoning for punishment may be to condition a child to avoid self-endangerment, to impose social conformity (in particular, in the contexts of compulsory education or military discipline), to defend norms, to protect against future harms (in particular, those from violent crime), and to maintain the law—and respect for rule of law—under which the social group is governed.

Penaltynoun

A legal sentence.

Penaltynoun

A punishment for violating rules of procedure.

Penaltynoun

(finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.

Penaltynoun

(football) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.

Penaltynoun

(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.

Penaltynoun

Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.

Penaltynoun

The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine.

Penaltynoun

A handicap.

Penaltynoun

the act of punishing

Penaltynoun

a payment required for not fulfilling a contract

Penaltynoun

the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition;

Penaltynoun

(games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game