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We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
Arthur C. Brooks

Meaning of "punitive" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PUNITIVE

From Medieval Latin pūnītīvus concerning punishment, from Latin pūnīre to punish.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PUNITIVE

punitive  [ˈpjuːnɪtɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUNITIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Punitive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PUNITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

punitive

Punishment

Punishment is the authoritative imposition of something undesirable or unpleasant upon an individual or group by law enforcement, in response to behaviour that an authority deems unacceptable or a violation of some norm. The unpleasant imposition may include a fine, penalty, or confinement, or be the removal or denial of something pleasant or desirable. The individual may be a person, or even an animal. The authority may be either a group or a single person, and punishment may be carried out formally under a system of law or informally in other kinds of social settings such as within a family. Negative consequences that are not authorised or that are administered without a breach of rules are not considered to be punishment as defined here. The study and practice of the punishment of crimes, particularly as it applies to imprisonment, is called penology, or, often in modern texts, corrections; in this context, the punishment process is euphemistically called "correctional process". Research into punishment often includes similar research into prevention.

Definition of punitive in the English dictionary

The definition of punitive in the dictionary is relating to, involving, or with the intention of inflicting punishment.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PUNITIVE


admonitive
ədˈmɒnɪtɪv
affinitive
əˈfɪnɪtɪv
cognitive
ˈkɒɡnɪtɪv
competitive
kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv
definitive
dɪˈfɪnɪtɪv
genitive
ˈdʒɛnɪtɪv
infinitive
ɪnˈfɪnɪtɪv
lenitive
ˈlɛnɪtɪv
monitive
ˈmɒnɪtɪv
neurocognitive
ˌnjʊərəˈkɒɡnɪtɪv
non-punitive
ˈnɒnˈpjuːnɪtɪv
noncognitive
ˌnɒnˈkɒɡnɪtɪv
nonpunitive
ˌnɒnˈpjuːnɪtɪv
philoprogenitive
ˌfɪləʊprəʊˈdʒɛnɪtɪv
precognitive
priːˈkɒɡnɪtɪv
premonitive
prɪˈmɒnɪtɪv
primogenitive
ˌpraɪməʊˈdʒɛnɪtɪv
progenitive
prəʊˈdʒɛnɪtɪv
recognitive
rɪˈkɒɡnɪtɪv
unitive
ˈjuːnɪtɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUNITIVE

punier
puniest
punily
puniness
punish
punishability
punishable
punisher
punishing
punishingly
punishment
punishment beating
punition
punitive damages
punitive taxation
punitively
punitiveness
punitory

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUNITIVE

active
additive
aperitive
capacitive
case-sensitive
false positive
fugitive
HIV-positive
inquisitive
insensitive
intransitive
intuitive
nutritive
positive
price-sensitive
primitive
prohibitive
repetitive
sensitive
time-sensitive
transitive

Synonyms and antonyms of punitive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PUNITIVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «punitive» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of punitive

Translation of «punitive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PUNITIVE

Find out the translation of punitive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of punitive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «punitive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

惩罚性的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

punitivo
570 millions of speakers

English

punitive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दंडात्मक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عقابية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

карательная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

punitivo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শাস্তিমূলক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

punitif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Punitif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Straf-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

懲罰的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

처벌의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Punitive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trừng phạt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தண்டனை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दंडात्मक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cezalandırıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

punitivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

karne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

каральна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

punitive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τιμωρητική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

strafmaatreëls
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bestraffande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

straff
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of punitive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUNITIVE»

The term «punitive» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.051 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PUNITIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «punitive» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «punitive» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about punitive

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6 QUOTES WITH «PUNITIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word punitive.
1
Kenneth Blackwell
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.
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Arthur C. Brooks
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
3
John Cleese
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
4
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
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Romano Prodi
I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.
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Julius Streicher
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUNITIVE»

Discover the use of punitive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to punitive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide
Using a wealth of new experimental data, and offering a host of provocative findings, this book documents a wide range of systematic biases in jury behavior.
Cass R. Sunstein, Reid Hastie, John W. Payne, 2008
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Sex Panic and the Punitive State
One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually based crime.
Roger N. Lancaster, 2011
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Punitive Damages and Business Torts: A Practitioner's Handbook
We will review in this chapter the measure of punitive damages in business tort cases. We will first consider who determines the amount of punitive damages and whether actual damages are a necessary predicate for the award of punitive ...
Thomas J. Collin, 1998
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Punitive Damages: Common Law and Civil Law Perspectives
This text on the nature, role and suitability of punitive damages in tort and private law contains reports from some jurisdictions that award punitive damages and some that don’t.
Helmut Koziol, Vanessa Wilcox, 2011
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Our Punitive Society: Race, Class, Gender and Punishment in ...
This brand new text identifies the macroeconomic forces relevant to imprisonmentpoverty and political powerlessnessand explores viable and humane alternatives to our current incarceration binge.
Randall G. Shelden, 2009
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Punitive Damages: Empirical Findings
Based on cases that reached jury verdict in Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco, California, from 1960 to 1984, this report presents analytically derived answers to questions surrounding the award of punitive damages: (1) how ...
Mark A. Peterson, Syam Sarma, Michael G. Shanley, 1987
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Perceived Organizational Forgiveness and Punitive Intent
Keywords. Perceived organizational forgiveness, punitive intent, ethical decision-making
Rommel Salvador, 2008
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Punitive war: confederate guerrillas and union reprisals
Together, all of these actions persuaded the Union to wage an increasingly punitive war. Clay Mountcastle presents a new look at the complex nature of guerrilla warfare in the Civil War and the Union Army's calculated response to it.
Clay Mountcastle, 2009
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The Punitive State: Crime, Punishment, And Imprisonment ...
Some have addressed these variations, but most have done so by reference to imprisonment rates per capita. In this book, I argue that the imprisonment rate ultimately reflects the cumulative outcome of two different punitive approaches.
Natasha Frost, 2006
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Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice: ...
The key ramification of this structure is that, in U.S. legal doctrine, punishing the violators of a law is at least as important as compensating the victims of crime, even when punitive damages are not at issue. Defendants who only pay restitution ...
Samuel Lucas, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUNITIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term punitive is used in the context of the following news items.
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Montana Supreme Court sends back $52 million case, foregoes …
Smith compared the punitive damages cap to a limit established in 1995 to keep noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases below $250,000. «Fox Business, Jul 15»
2
Jury Awards $2 Million in Punitive Damages for Attempted Murder
With interest, the award now has been increased to $6,577,000 inclusive of the punitive damages awarded today. Javier van Oordt of the Santa Ana law firm of ... «PR Newswire, Jun 15»
3
Court Upholds $2.8M Compensation but Strikes Down Punitive
But the appeals court overturned an additional $8.6 million punitive award levied against the congregation and the Jehovah's Witnesses headquarters ... «The San Francisco Appeal, Apr 15»
4
Judge Rules Ellen Pao Can Sue For Punitive Damages In Gender …
Punitive damages often run much higher than the awards designed to compensate plaintiffs for financial losses. The four-week trial on Pao's lawsuit has ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
5
Ellen Pao can sue Kleiner Perkins for punitive damages, rules judge
Ellen Pao is suing for both punitive and compensatory damages in her gender discrimination trial against the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. Today, Judge ... «The Verge, Mar 15»
6
Crisis: Next government should launch an urgent review of 'punitive
A new report says that the next government should launch an urgent review of benefit sanctions because the current regime is "punitive and flawed". «ITV News, Mar 15»
7
Senate changes mind on punitive damages bill
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Several members of the state Senate changed their minds Thursday and voted in favor of a bill (SB421) that caps punitive damages in ... «West Virginia MetroNews, Feb 15»
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Takeda Told to Pay $1.3 Million in Actos Punitive Damages
(Bloomberg) -- A jury ordered Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. to pay $1.3 million in punitive damages to a former teacher who argued the drugmaker's Actos ... «Bloomberg, Feb 15»
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Plaintiffs' lawyers for oil spill victims say BP should pay punitive
Plaintiffs' lawyers argue BP should be forced to pay not just for direct damages to Gulf Coast states, businesses and individuals, but also additional punitive ... «NOLA.com, Dec 14»
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Takeda, Lilly Win 99.6% Cut in Actos Punitive Damages
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. won a more than a 99 percent cut in a $9 billion punitive damages award over claims the ... «Bloomberg, Oct 14»

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