What's the difference between penalty and surcharge?

Penalty


Definition:

  • (n.) Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.
  • (n.) The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine.
  • (n.) A handicap.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
  • (2) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
  • (3) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
  • (4) His arm was being held by Muntari who let go of it as he entered the penalty area.
  • (5) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
  • (6) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
  • (7) And they face the criminal penalty and administratively their visa is cancelled.
  • (8) BAE is likely to have made provision for much heavier penalties and its financial stability will not be threatened.
  • (9) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
  • (10) The National Basketball Players Association has asked the NBA to ban Sterling from attending playoff games and to impose the league's maximum penalties if the comments are verified to be his.
  • (11) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
  • (12) The department of corrections stressed that the two reviews were the initial reports into the execution and were narrowly cast to look specifically at whether the requirements of the state’s death penalty protocol had been complied with.
  • (13) He went over to win a penalty against Mexico the other day, and blah blether blah.
  • (14) But Vokes’s second-half penalty and Gray’s 61st-minute strike won it for Burnley and left Fulham two points away from the relegation zone.
  • (15) In many countries, male same-sex relationships are punishable by 10 years behind bars; in at least two, the penalty is death.
  • (16) So why are you doing it in the second half?” Kompany refused to accept the penalty decision might cost City a place in the last 16.
  • (17) We carried English prestige into the inaugural season of the Europa League, taking Atlético Madrid into extra time in the final and within five minutes of a penalty shootout.
  • (18) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
  • (19) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
  • (20) United had been spared and, in the next attack, Jesse Lingard turned Michael Carrick’s crossfield pass across the penalty area for Rooney, so beleaguered recently, to head in the team’s first goal for six hours and 44 minutes of play.

Surcharge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
  • (v. t.) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.
  • (v. t.) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
  • (n.) An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.
  • (n.) The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
  • (n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I wrote to Uber, which stated that it adds a 2.6 surcharge on days when there is likely to be a lot of demand – it was Ladies’ Day.
  • (2) The local council is calling on food and drink shops to impose a 10p surcharge on all sugary soft beverages, with the proceeds to be put into a children’s health and food education trust.
  • (3) Not only did they sit on their hands when they knew about the extra surcharge for the UK, we now learn they also underestimated the scale of the UK’s contribution in 2013.
  • (4) Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.
  • (5) Energy firms would be required to impose the same surcharge for direct debit.
  • (6) Hatoyama will have to reconcile his bold initiative with election pledges to eliminate road tolls and petrol surcharges.
  • (7) If they pay the capital amount on an agreed instalment basis, that should be sufficient.” The UK’s position could be further weakened by indications that the Netherlands – which was hit with a £600m surcharge – is ready to go along with the deal.
  • (8) In miniature, Sajid Javid’s approval of touts is part of the same ideology that sees every available inch of public life exploited for profit, every transaction monetised at every possible point, from energy to entertainment, often at the expense of those least able to afford the surcharges.
  • (9) Revenue from the state surcharge would be earmarked for the states.
  • (10) France has been considering a 3% surcharge on earnings over €500,000, and Spain is considering a return to a wealth tax.
  • (11) Islington council will introduce a £96 per year diesel vehicle parking surcharge on 1 April.
  • (12) David Cameron’s refusal to pay a European budget surcharge of £1.7bn by the end of the month will incur punitive extra costs, with interest charged instantly on a rising monthly scale, the new European commission warned on Monday on its first working day in office.
  • (13) Isles such as Mykonos and Santorini would see a surcharge on hotel rooms, services and goods.
  • (14) Similarly, Sanders is running against the political establishment and calling for a fundamental restructuring of the social compact; grounded by premium-free healthcare and free public college , funded by steep tax hikes on the rich and across-the-board surcharges and fueled by what he’s calling a “political revolution”.
  • (15) Employers may use these data to reduce costs by not hiring tobacco users, adding surcharges for their health insurance, and strongly encouraging cessation.
  • (16) Financial planning for an RDF includes four analytical tasks: assessment of the potential market, estimation of the costs of an RDF, establishment of the cost-recovery objectives, definition of the role of subsidies and surcharges.
  • (17) We have had a strong start to the year with a record first quarter driven by a number of sales transactions being brought forward before the introduction of the additional stamp duty surcharge on buy-to-let properties,” Budden said.
  • (18) Judge John Stobart ordered the protesters to pay £10 compensation each to the RAF, £75 in costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
  • (19) This surcharge will also apply even if the main home you currently own is overseas.
  • (20) The penalty is in addition to fines, victim surcharges, compensation orders and prosecution costs.