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📖 Определения и значения для слова penalty

📒 a punishment for breaking a law, rule or contract

  • to impose a penalty
  • Assault carries a maximum penalty of seven years' imprisonment.
  • penalty for (doing) something The penalty for travelling without a ticket is £200.

📒 a disadvantage suffered as a result of something

  • One of the penalties of fame is loss of privacy.
  • It's just one of the penalties of fame.
  • People who lose their jobs are suffering the penalties for longer periods.

📒 a disadvantage given to a player or a team when they break a rule

  • He incurred a ten-second penalty in the first round.

📒 a chance to score a goal or point without any defending players, except the goalkeeper, trying to stop it; the goal or point that is given if it is successful. This chance is given because the other team has broken the rules.

  • Two minutes later Ford equalized with a penalty.
  • We were awarded a penalty after a late tackle.
  • I volunteered to take the penalty (= be the person who tries to score the goal/point).

📒 to suffer because of bad luck, a mistake or something you have done

  • He looked terrible this morning. I think he's paying the penalty for all those late nights.
  • They're now paying the price for past mistakes.
  • She thinks that any inconvenience is a price worth paying for living in such a beautiful place.
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