Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

attach v (TAKE GOODS)

attachment n (TAKING GOODS)
bar v (PREVENT)
boot n (WHEEL)
clamp v (FASTEN)
clobber v (HIT)
community service n
correction n (PUNISHMENT)
correctional adj
crucify v
Denver boot n
detention n
disbar v
discipline v (PUNISH)
disqualify v
do v (PUNISH)
endorse v (PUNISH)
endorsement n (DRIVING LICENCE)
example n (PUNISHMENT)
excommunicate v
fine n
fine v
fix v (PUNISH)
ground v (PUNISH)
grounded adj (PUNISHED)
parking ticket n
penal adj (PUNISHMENT)
penalize v (PUNISH)
penalty n (PUNISHMENT)
probation n
punish v (CRIME)
punishable adj
punishment n (CRIME)
punitive adj
rap n (PUNISHMENT)
retribution n
sanction n (ORDER)
sentence n (PUNISHMENT)
spot fine n
ticket n (PRICE CARD)
vigilante n
wheel clamp n
Denver boot, at boot n (WHEEL)
penalise, at penalize v (PUNISH)
corrections
lines
a slap on the wrist
be brought/called to account idiom
bring sb to book idiom
carrot and stick idiom
crime doesn't pay idiom
flay sb alive idiom
have sb's guts for garters idiom
you might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb idiom
heads will roll! idiom
kick (some) ass idiom
take the law into your own hands idiom
take your lumps idiom
sb should be shot idiom
short sharp shock idiom
skin sb alive idiom
spare the rod and spoil the child idiom
swing for it idiom
throw the book at sb idiom

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