punishments
- 1Plural of punishment.
The new policy lists the punishments for various workplace violations.
Medieval courts imposed punishments that ranged from fines to public flogging.
Note
A plural that counts penalties rather than naming the practice of punishing. When the abstract act is meant, English keeps the singular mass noun (punishment should fit the crime). Once separate sanctions are in view, the count plural takes over: the punishments for theft and for fraud, punishments ranging from fines to exile. A quick test is whether the penalties could be listed one by one. If they could, the plural is right.
punishments is a form of punishment
punishment, noun: The act or process of imposing a sanction on someone, typically by an authority such as a parent or teacher, in response to bad behavior. Full entry
- Forms
- punishmentpunishments plural
- Spelling
- punishment → punishments: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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