Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A form of punishment whereby a suspected perpetrator's peers are targeted.

    kollektive Bestrafung

    коллективное наказаниеkollektivnoje nakazanije

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Collective punishment is a war crime.

  2. How can you possibly believe collective punishment is a good idea?

  3. Collective punishment for individual crimes is an inadvisable strategy.

  4. The consequence of individual crimes should be collective punishment.

  5. Israel has intensified its collective punishment of the Palestinian people.

Translations

2 languages
Русский
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Deutsch
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Forms

plural: collective punishments

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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