agreed penalty
1penalty — pen·al·ty / pen əl tē/ n pl ties 1: a punishment that is imposed on a wrongdoer by statute or judicial decision 2: a pecuniary sum that by agreement is to be paid by a party who fails to fulfill an obligation to another and that is punitive… …
2early withdrawal penalty — Penalty paid by the holder of a fixed term investment penalizing an investor who withdraws money before the agreed upon maturity date. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …
3Capital Punishment (Death Penalty) — Capital Punishment † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Capital Punishment The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime. The Latins use the word capitalis (from caput, head) to describe that which… …
4Civil penalty — A civil penalty or civil fine is a term used to describe when a state entity, government agency, or private party seeks monetary relief against an individual as restitution for wrongdoing by the individual. The wrongdoing is typically defined by… …
5Challenge (Scrabble) — In the game of Scrabble, a challenge is the act of one player questioning the validity of one or more words formed by another player in the most recent turn. If one or more of the challenged words is not in the previously agreed upon dictionary,… …
6Liar's dice — A set of Poker dice as used in Liar dice (individual hand). Liar s dice, or Liar dice, with roots originating in South America and popularized in early Spanish History, was brought to Spain by the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro during the… …
7Pyramid (drinking game) — Infobox CardGame title = Pyramid subtitle = image link = image caption = Cards are laid out in a pyramid shape alt names = type = Drinking players = 3+ num cards = 52 deck = Anglo American play = Clockwise card rank = Ace(A) Two(2) origin =… …
8Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement — ▪ 2006 Introduction Trials of former heads of state, U.S. Supreme Court rulings on eminent domain and the death penalty, and high profile cases against former executives of large corporations were leading legal and criminal issues in 2005.… …
9United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
10football — /foot bawl /, n. 1. a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent s goal line and by place… …
