penalize

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It's also sparking a new round of legislative proposals to penalize -- and potentially tax -- executives who receive bonuses at rescued companies.

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  1. transitive verb To subject to a penalty, especially for infringement of a law or official regulation. See Synonyms at punish.
  2. transitive verb To impose a handicap on; place at a disadvantage.

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  • The district did not use 2008 because it called for voluntary water conservation last year, and including last year in the average would penalize customers who answered that call more than those who did not.
  • The question they asked does a search engine, such as Google, penalize a site for a specific keyword phrase? —  Search Engine Roundtable
  • The question then came up, would Google penalize a site that had broken links? —  Search Engine Roundtable
  • There's no way to assume that the algorithm will penalize you at all. —  Search Engine Roundtable
  • Typically Google won't penalize you for linking from your. de site to your. com site; —  Search Engine Roundtable
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penalize:   penalizing ·  penalized ·  penalizes
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  1. = Portuguese penalizar, trouble, afflict; as penal + -ize.
 

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/ˈpinəlaɪz/
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