punitive

Preposition: in

• nature: It is important to maintain a licensing regime, which is not punitive in nature for smaller community events.

Modifies a noun

• damage: Business take stock for punitive damages of your business.
• sanction: At the very least he thought they were advisory with no punitive sanction for breaching them.
• expedition: A wholesale case was the fate of a punitive expedition sent down from Austria in the seventies.
• taxation: Another reason is their belief in punitive taxation on high earners.
• taxis: Such grants could be funded by a range of increasingly punitive taxes on large road bulk freight vehicles.
• measure: Are you looking already into punitive measures like sanctions?

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: Such grants could be funded by a range of increasingly punitive taxes on large road bulk freight vehicles.
• not: Reform should be supportive, not punitive says Mental Health Foundation January 2006.
• highly: This is a highly punitive charge for individuals who have already implemented arrangements.
• potentially: But would the response here have been anything like as rapid, decisive and potentially punitive?
• financially: It is still financially punitive for women and low income groups.
• purely: However, methods designed to produce behavioral change based on some form of positive reinforcement work better overall than purely punitive strategies.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The stages should become increasingly punitive in order to enforce compliance.
• include: Not including punitive have seen a ice water coffee.
• seem: Britain seems more punitive than other countries and getting more so.
• see: She emphasized that this should not been seen as punitive.