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PENALIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does penalization mean? 

PENALIZATION (noun)
  The noun PENALIZATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of punishingplay

  Familiarity information: PENALIZATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PENALIZATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of punishing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

penalisation; penalization; penalty; punishment

Hypernyms ("penalization" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "penalization"):

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:

penalize (impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on)


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