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• death penalty (noun)
  1. the legal punishment of death [↪  capital punishment]
• penalty area (noun)
  1. the area in front of the GOAL in football. The team opposing you is given a PENALTY if you break a rule there.
• penalty box (noun)
  1. an area off the ice where a player in ICE HOCKEY must wait after not obeying a rule
  2. a penalty area
• penalty clause (noun)
  1. the part of a contract which says what someone will have to pay or do if they do not obey the agreement, for example if they do not complete work on time
• penalty free throw (noun)
  1. an unhindered basketball shot from the foul line; given to penalize the other team for committing a foul
• penalty kick (noun)
  1. a PENALTY ( 4)
• penalty point (noun)
  1. British English a note made on a driver's LICENCE to show that they have done something wrong while they were driving. If someone gets 12 penalty points they are no longer allowed to drive a car.
• penalty shoot-out (noun)
  1. an occasion when each team in a football match takes penalty kicks until one team misses the GOAL - used as a way of deciding which team will win when the ordinary part of the match has ended in a DRAW
• penalty spot (noun)
  1. soccer a small white spot, painted on the grass, twelve yards in front of the centre of the goal line, from which all penalty kicks are taken
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