| 词汇 | punitive-award |
| 释义 | punitive award noun[ C ] LAWukus(alsopunitive damage award) an amount of money that someone who commits a crime has to pay, that is intended to be large enough to prevent them or others from committing similar crimes in the future: impose a punitive award (against sb)The Supreme Court imposed a punitive award of $4.6 million against the company. make a punitive award to sbThe judge made a punitive award of €100,000 to the sacked workers. Examples of punitive awardpunitive award There are many victims who cannot recover through the tort system at all; why should the punitiveaward not go to them instead? It means that only by chance will the quantum of the punitiveaward reflect the gravity of the violation of any given plaintiff's right. A federal judge reduced that punitiveaward to $250,000. From CNN The probability of a punitiveaward being made where one is required on efficiency grounds would be greatly increased if this constraint did not exist. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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