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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
punitive
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 damaged, like Yasmin, whose continuous self-injury meant that she was moved into a more punitive environment.
■ NOUN
action
▪ The president, however, can issue waivers to prevent punitive actions.
▪ Once again, the agency sent a strongly worded warning letter, but took no punitive action.
award
▪ However, he said that the punitive award to the estate of Nicole Brown Simpson might be more vulnerable.
▪ Some Wall Street firms have expressed outrage at punitive awards, and many investors have complained of brokers' stalling tactics.
damage
▪ The judgment reflected a refusal by the court to limit punitive damage awards.
▪ In exchange, the companies would be protected from punitive damage awards on past misconduct but not future misconduct.
damages
▪ Business groups had repeatedly pressed for punitive damages to be limited, complaining of the increasing size and frequency of such awards.
▪ Some of the negotiators, however, said the stalemate over the issue of punitive damages seemed especially intractable.
▪ The jury awarded punitive damages of £40,000 against Irving, and a further £40,000 against Cassell.
▪ The jury did not find that Saab acted maliciously or with oppression, however, and refused to award punitive damages.
▪ Insurance companies pay most punitive damages because they themselves are the defendants that juries are most likely to punish substantially.
▪ Deliberation on punitive damages begins today in 20 blast victims' lawsuit against Seminole Pipeline Co.
▪ He is asking for punitive damages of $ 6.9m.
▪ He was awarded $ 335, 000 in compensatory damages and $ 300, 617 in punitive damages.
expedition
▪ Maybe he would even mount a punitive expedition tonight, striking while the iron was hot, and all that.
▪ No mention was ever made of the 270 deaths at the Apalachicola fort or the punitive expedition against the settlement at Fowlton.
▪ First Hutus massacred Tutsis, then Tutsi soldiers went on punitive expeditions against the Hutus.
▪ The punitive expedition of a Merovingian monarch was not quickly forgotten.
measure
▪ Its proposed abolition and replacement with more punitive measures would further criminalise travellers for their way of life.
▪ As a punitive measure, the mayor closed black lodging houses and hotels at public insistence.
▪ His renunciation also rested upon a dubious legal sentence of 1202, a punitive measure against King John by Philip Augustus.
▪ The bulldozing was a punitive measure.
▪ The government, however, had only just begun their punitive measures against excessive liberalism.
sanction
▪ It represents a number of auxiliary practices which make punitive sanctions more effective.
tariff
▪ He described the prospect of punitive tariffs as sad.
tax
▪ People considering retiring early would be caught by that punitive tax.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ punitive taxes
▪ Government forces immediately took punitive action against the rebels.
▪ The company was ordered to pay punitive damages in a sex discrimination case.
▪ The sanctions were a punitive measure used to try to force South Africa to reject apartheid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As Baker repeatedly told jurors, the intent of punitive damages is to punish, not destroy.
▪ But far too many listen only rarely to their children and have little to say to them that is not punitive.
▪ He was awarded $ 335, 000 in compensatory damages and $ 300, 617 in punitive damages.
▪ His kiss was an assault, punitive, compelling her lips to part, robbing her of breath.
▪ However, he said that the punitive award to the estate of Nicole Brown Simpson might be more vulnerable.
▪ New students were aware of 1987's punitive assignments.
▪ Such punitive gestures fulfilled the important function of maintaining mechanical solidarity at the requisite pitch.
▪ The president, however, can issue waivers to prevent punitive actions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Punitive

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 shall dread a blow from the punitive hand.
--Bagehot.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
punitive

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).

Wiktionary
punitive

a. (context legal military English) inflicting punishment, punishing

WordNet
punitive

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

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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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