| 词汇 | punitive-damages |
| 释义 | punitive damages noun[ plural ] LAWukus(also USpunitives) 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: The company was ordered to pay €30,000 in punitive damages. See alsocompensatory damages exemplary damages Examples of punitive damagespunitive damages The damages totalled $159,000 ($3,000 in compensatory damages and $50,000 in punitivedamages for each of three charges). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Punitivedamages are also possible, because conversion is an intentional tort. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He was awarded $5.2 million compensatory damages, later reduced to $1.5 million, and $9 million in punitivedamages against the church. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The father and daughter sought compensatory and punitivedamages, attorney's fees, and costs of suit. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Punitivedamages were reduced from $108 million to $4.7 million. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She claimed $250,000 as her share of the house, and another $250,000 in punitivedamages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A prayer for punitivedamages must be identified in a separate paragraph. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A separate $15 million punitivedamages award was reversed by a lower court. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In that case, a taxpayer had received an award of punitivedamages from a competitor, and sought to avoid paying taxes on that award. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In addition, they awarded her $2.7 million in punitivedamages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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