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What is a penalty?

What is a penalty? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A legal sentence.
  2. A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
  3. (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
  4. (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
  5. (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.
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Derry missed the chance of winning when they had a penalty saved in the dying moments.
Criminal damage falls under Section 60 of the Crimes Ordinance and carries a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment.
Campos makes an immediate impression, just as he did against Slovenia, slaloming through the German penalty area.
Minutes later UW's parade to the penalty box continued when Della Mora was whistled for slashing.
New, much more aggressive models are needed, and unfortunately we will pay a heavy penalty in run-times and convergence.
Alas, one of the biggest came in the 1994 World Cup final, when his penalty miss handed the trophy to Brazil.

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