any company found to be breaking these rules will be heavily fined.
the company was fined £20 000 for breaching safety regulations.
he got fined £200 for parking illegally.
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fine
(verb)BrE / faɪn / NAmE / faɪn /
to make somebody pay money as an official punishment
She was fined for speeding.
Any company found to be breaking these rules will be heavily fined.
The company was fined £20 000 for breaching safety regulations.
He got fined £200 for parking illegally.
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they fine
he / she / it fines
past simple fined
past participle fined
-ing form fining
Word Origin
verb Middle English: from Old French fin ‘end, payment’, from Latin finis ‘end’ (in medieval Latin denoting a sum paid on settling a lawsuit). The original sense was ‘conclusion’ (surviving in the phrase in fine); also used in the medieval Latin sense, the word came to denote a penalty of any kind, later specifically a monetary penalty.
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