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straff — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • penalty noun A punishment or negative consequence imposed for breaking a rule, law, or agreement.
  • punishment noun A penalty given for wrongdoing, or the act of imposing one.
  • sentence noun A group of words that forms a complete grammatical statement, usually with a subject and a verb.

Senses

straff is used for these senses in English:

  • penalty A legal sentence.
  • penalty (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
  • penalty kick (soccer) A form of direct free kick, taken from the penalty spot after a defensive foul in the penalty box, with only the goalkeeper defending the goal.
  • sentence A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

penalty — full definition

  1. noun A punishment or negative consequence imposed for breaking a rule, law, or agreement.
  2. noun In sport, a free shot or kick awarded after a foul, or a punishment for breaking the rules of play.

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