| Main Entry: | forfeiture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
Synonyms: |
fine, forfeit, giving up, loss, mulct, relinquishment |
| Main Entry: | cost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty, sacrifice |
Synonyms: |
damage, deprivation, detriment, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, loss, suffering |
Antonyms: |
repayment, retribution |
| Main Entry: | expense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cost, payment |
Synonyms: |
amount, assessment, bite*, bottom line, budget, charge, consumption, debit, debt, decrement, deprivation, disbursement, duty, expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, insurance, investment, liability, loan, loss, mortgage, obligation, out of pocket, outdo, outlay, output, overhead, payroll, price, price tag, rate, responsibility, risk, sacrifice, spending, sum, surcharge, tariff, toll, upkeep, use, value, worth |
| Notes: | expenditure refers to an actual outlay of money or goods, whereas expense has a more general sense, a charge or cost of goods or property; we have expenses, but we make expenditures |
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
Synonyms: |
accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage |
Antonyms: |
accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | penalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | punishment |
Synonyms: |
amends, amercement, cost, damages, disadvantage, discipline, dues, fall, fine, forfeit, forfeiture, handicap, mortification, mulct, price, rap, retribution |
Antonyms: |
award, forgiveness, pardon, reward |
| Main Entry: | punishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty |
Synonyms: |
abuse, amercement, beating, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, confiscation, correction, deprivation, disciplinary action, discipline, forfeit, forfeiture, gallows, hard work, infliction, just desserts, lumps, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, punitive measures, purgatory, reparation, retribution, rod, rough treatment, sanction, sequestration, short shrift, slave labor, suffering, torture, trial, unhappiness, victimization, what for |
Antonyms: |
encouragement, exoneration, praise, protection, reward |
| Main Entry: | amercement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fine |
Synonyms: |
damages, forfeiture, mulct, penalty, punishment |
| Main Entry: | misplacement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loss |
Synonyms: |
accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage |
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | punishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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