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punitive

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a punitive expedition (= one an army undertakes to punish someone ) ▪ The Afghan army mounted a punitive expedition against the local militia groups. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ Many have been psychologically ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "inflicting or involving punishment," from French punitif (16c.) or directly from Medieval Latin punitivus , from Latin punitus , past participle of punire "to punish, correct, chastise" (see punish ).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Punitive \Pu"ni*tive\, a. Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice. If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. -- I. Taylor. We ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context legal military English) inflicting punishment, punishing

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive damages" [syn: punitory ] [ant: rehabilitative ]

Usage examples of punitive.

Similarly, to deter careless destruction of human life, a State by law may allow punitive damages to be assessed in actions against employers for deaths caused by the negligence of their employees.

This is the planet itself, the mantle and the crust, combining a ceaseless movement of tectonic plates, breeding earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami, and many disasters, together with the ceaseless hydrosphere and punitive changing climates and temperatures.

Roman remorselessness in war, and feeling the pinch of those quarter-million seasoned troops he had lost in the Caucasus on a pointless punitive expedition against the Albanian savages who had raided Colchis.

The next day, the United States and Great Britain launched Operation Desert Fox, the mission they had halted in November, a limited punitive operation uncoupled from any coercive demands on Saddam.

It has been supplanted by the dictatorship of the Central Committee of the Bolshevist Party, governing with the assistance of a swarm of extraordinary commissions and punitive detachments of imported soldiers.

Bereft of those punitive and vindictive qualities we Christers have come to respect and love.

In the end, the Principals decided in favor of a punitive response rather than a coercive campaign.

Had Antonia been on Shalem at the time, she would no doubt have been ordered on a punitive mission, combining forces with some of the other stations to deliver the Tenebrae fleets a crushing blow.

I will appreciate it if you would unfold before me the manner in which I may obtain full satisfaction from these miscreants, not excluding the extraction of punitive damages for the affront they have committed to my dignity.

In a world that has simply decided that the Iraq sanctions are evil and have caused the death of millions of Iraqis, how could the United States get the Security Council to enact new, stricter sanctions with explicit punitive measures for those who violate them?

Look, what you've got here is this judge sitting there reviewing this complaint and their answer under Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure looking for grounds for dismissal where they try to claim it's legally insufficient, like it doesn't state a cause of action for a claim where relief can be granted, or they say it fails to allege an essential element of the claim or it alleges some element defectively here where there's these different kinds of damages you're asking for, see you're alleging general damages, compensatory damages, special damages, punitive damages, you comply with these procedural necessities for each one or you're out on your ass.

The Ninth Cause of Action contains the charges that the fraudulent conduct on the part of the defendants as herein alleged was willful, wanton, malicious and in utter disregard of the rights of the plaintiff causing him mental and professional distress and that as a result he is entitled to compensatory and treble or punitive damages, an accounting, a constructive trust for plaintiff's benefit on all profits and gross revenues from The Blood in the Red White and Blue, an injunction stopping its showing unless and until he is credited with his originative role in its creation, interest, costs and reasonable attorney's fees.

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Being late has punitive consequences – the Ring Imperium has always been a net importer of brainpower and a net exporter of gravitational potential energy.

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