Definizione monolingua

penalty

penalty (plural penalties)

1. A legal sentence.

   The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.

2. A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine oclock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?

3. (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
4. (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box.
5. (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.

   A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.

Definizione dizionario penalty

	calcio di rigore
	free kick in football
	A free kick in football taken from 11 m in front of the goal with only the goalkeeper defending.

punizione

	penalità
	punishment for violating rules of procedure

	pena
	Sanzione punitiva a carico di chi abbia infranto la legge.
	Punitive sanction taken against someone who has broken the law.

	rigore
	free kick in football

ammenda

castigo

dolore

fio

multa

penale

penale, multa

penalizzazione

sanzione penale

Altri significati:

legal sentence

(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.

A legal sentence.

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

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

punishment in ice hockey

A punishment for violating rules of procedure.