Definition of penalization Penalization

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We found 3 definitions of penalization from 3 different sources.

What does penalization mean?

Noun
penalization - the act of punishing
		punishment, penalty, penalisation
		social control control exerted (actively or passively) by group action
		castigation, chastisement verbal punishment
		corporal punishment the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
		cruel and unusual punishment punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed
		detention a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home; "the detention of tardy pupils"
		discipline, correction training to improve strength or self-control
		economic strangulation punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them; "the economic strangulation of the Jews by the Nazi Party"
		imprisonment the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
		medicine, music the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
		self-punishment punishment inflicted on yourself
		stick threat of a penalty; "the policy so far is all stick and no carrot"