punishment
Definition 1
General: Aversive stimulus that follows an undesirable behavior, and is intended to decrease or eliminate the occurrence of that behavior. It may be triggered either due to the performance of an undesirable act (negligence) or the non-performance of a desirable act (disobedience). Punishments take the form of presentation of an unpleasant stimulus (criticism or warning) or withdrawal of a pleasant one (employment or promotion). Threat of punishment usually also constitutes a punishment.
Definition 2
Law: Confinement, fine, penalty, sanction, or loss of a privilege, property, or right, assessed and administered as deterrence or retribution by an authorized court to an entity duly convicted of violating the law of the land.
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punishment is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law and HR, Teams, & Training subjects.
punishment appears in the definitions of the following terms:
trespass,
coercive power,
liability,
justice,
nuisance,
rule of law,
bona fide error,
authoritarianism,
theory X and theory Y,
behavioral psychology
and
punishment appears in these other terms: collective punishment, mitigation of punishment, corporeal punishment
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