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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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penalty

/ˈpɛn(ə)lti/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈpɛn(ə)lti/
penalty
Syllables
3 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

pe - nal - ty -> penalty

Myanmar meaning

(n) ပြစ်ဒဏ်။ ပြစ်ဒဏ်အမျိုးအစားပမာဏ။ ဒုက္ခ။ အားကစားပြစ်ဒဏ်။ ဘောလုံးပြစ်ဒဏ်ဘောကန်သွင်း၍ရသည့်ဂိုး။ ပင်နယ်တီ။

Full entry

penalty /'penlti/ n

၁။ ~ (for sth) (က) ပြစ်ဒဏ်။ a penalty clause in a contract. (ခ) ပြစ်ဒဏ် (အမျိုးအစား ပမာဏ)။ the death penalty ❍ It is an offence to travel without a valid ticket—penalty £100. ❍ The maximum penalty for this crime is 10 years' imprisonment.
၂။ ဒုက္ခ။ One of the penalties of fame is loss of privacy.
၃။ (က) (အားကစား) ပြစ်ဒဏ်။ The referee awarded a penalty (kick) to the home team. (ခ) (ဘောလုံး) ပြစ်ဒဏ်ဘော ကန်သွင်း၍ ရသည့်ဂိုး။ ပင်နယ်တီ။ The only goal was a penalty in the second half.
❏ penalty area (also penalty box ) n (ဘောလုံး ဂိုးရှေ့) ပင်နယ်တီဧရိယာ။ ❍ FOOTBALL
❏ penalty shoot-out n (ဘောလုံး) နှစ်သင်း ပင်နယ်တီ အညီအမျှ ကန်စေခြင်းဖြင့် အရှုံးအနိုင် ဆုံးဖြတ်သည့် နည်းလမ်း။

More examples
  • [penalty for] : The maximum penalty for the offence is two years’ imprisonment.
  • [severe/heavy/stiff/tough penalties] : There are severe penalties for companies who breach environmental laws.
  • Under the law the president is able to impose tough penalties.
  • [carry a penalty] : The crime carries a much heavier penalty in the US.
  • Riders can incur time penalties for failing to keep to their lane.
  • [penalty of/for] : Increased risk of skin cancer is one of the penalties of sunbathing.
  • [pay the penalty (for something)] : Some growers are paying the penalty for not watering crops sufficiently in hot weather.
  • They scored from a penalty awarded when Jenkins handled the ball.
  • [take a penalty] : The skipper told me I had to take the penalty and I was delighted.
  • [miss a penalty] : Southgate missed a penalty that would have won them the match.
  • [kick a penalty] : Fox kicked a last-minute penalty to give the All-Blacks a sensational victory.
Synonyms
punishment, price, fine, sentence, consequence, amends, amercement, cost, damages, disadvantage, discipline, drawback, dues, fall, forfeit, forfeiture, handicap, mortification, mulct, penalization, rap, retribution
Antonyms
advantage, award, benefit, forgiveness, gain, pardon, reward
Cross references
punishmentpricefinesentenceconsequenceamendsamercementcostdamagesdisadvantagedisciplinedrawbackduesfallforfeitforfeiturehandicapmortificationmulctpenalizationrapretributionadvantageawardbenefitforgivenessgainpardon
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