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punishment::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | penalisation, penalization, penalty |
| Type of | social control |
| Has types | chastisement, corporal punishment, correction, cruel and unusual punishment, detention, discipline, economic strangulation, imprisonment, medicine, music, penance, self-abasement, self-mortification, self-punishment, castigation, stick |
| Derivation | punish |
Examples of punishment
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He no longer believes that capital punishment can be even-handedly administered.
From the dailyherald.com
Eleven women have been executed since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
From the washingtonpost.com
They could face punishment ranging from a reprimand to expulsion from the House.
From the kentucky.com
Consumers can face punishment if they fail to secure their internet connections.
From the theaustralian.com.au
I strongly object to the death penalty, or to punishment that resembles torture.
From the economist.com
For example, food should never be used as either a reward or punishment at camp.
From the latimes.com
Prisons in the UK are not a punishment you get TV games meals and its rent free.
From the guardian.co.uk
One expects penal hardliners like Dr Fox to sympathise with corporal punishment.
From the independent.co.uk
As for collective punishment being inappropriate, I agree but isn't it used now?
From the bucksfreepress.co.uk
- The act of punishing
- (punish) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"
- (punished) subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)
- (punishing) arduous: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
- Punishment is the authoritative imposition of something negative or unpleasant on a person or animal in response to behavior deemed wrong by an individual or group. Inflicted unpleasantness without authority is not punishment, but is characterized as something else. ...
- In operant conditioning, punishment is any change in a human or animal's surroundings that occurs after a given behavior or response which reduces the likelihood of that behavior occurring again in the future. As with reinforcement, it is the behavior, not the animal, that is punished. ...
- School punishment is a hierarchy of penalties used to punish infractions of rules in a school setting. There are wide variations in practice between schools in different cultures, countries or states, and between different types of school in the same country. ...
- Punishment is an Australian television soap opera made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981.
- "The Punishment" is the second single release from Tarot's fifth studio album For the Glory of Nothing.
