Penalisation (Noun)
Meaning
The act of punishing.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The government's decision to impose harsher penalties on environmental offenders was seen as a necessary step towards the penalisation of reckless behaviour.
- The company was subject to heavy penalisation for violating the terms of its contract, resulting in significant financial losses.
- The judge argued that the penalisation of juvenile offenders should focus on rehabilitation rather than punishment.
- The country's penalisation of dissenting voices has been widely condemned by human rights groups around the world.
- The new policy introduces stricter penalisation for tax evasion in an effort to increase revenue and reduce corruption.
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Hyponyms
- Self-mortification
- Self-punishment
- Medicine
- Self-abasement
- Castigation
- Corporal Punishment
- Cruel And Unusual Punishment
- Music
- Correction
- Discipline
- Economic Strangulation
- Chastisement
- Stick
- Penance
- Detention
- Imprisonment