| 单词 | punitive award |
| 释义 | punitive award noun[C] LAWukus(alsopunitive damage award)anamountofmoneythat someone whocommitsacrimehas topay, that isintendedto belargeenough topreventthem orothersfromcommittingsimilarcrimesin thefuture: impose a punitive award (against sb)TheSupremeCourtimposedapunitiveawardof $4.6 million against thecompany. make a punitive award to sbThejudgemade apunitiveawardof €100,000 to thesackedworkers. Examplesofpunitive awardpunitive award There are many victims who cannot recover through the tort system at all; why should thepunitiveawardnot go to them instead? From theCambridge English Corpus It means that only by chance will the quantum of thepunitiveawardreflect the gravity of the violation of any given plaintiff's right. From theCambridge English Corpus A federal judge reduced thatpunitiveawardto $250,000. FromCNN The probability of apunitiveawardbeing made where one is required on efficiency grounds would be greatly increased if this constraint did not exist. From theCambridge English Corpus 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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