AMERCEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amercement mean? 

• AMERCEMENT (noun)
  The noun AMERCEMENT has 1 sense:

1. money extracted as a penalty

  Familiarity information: AMERCEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERCEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Money extracted as a penalty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

amercement; fine; mulct

Hypernyms ("amercement" is a kind of...):

penalty (a payment required for not fulfilling a contract)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amercement"):

library fine (fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned)

Derivation:

amerce (punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court)