fine
verb/faɪn/
/faɪn/
[often passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they fine | /faɪn/ /faɪn/ |
| he / she / it fines | /faɪnz/ /faɪnz/ |
| past simple fined | /faɪnd/ /faɪnd/ |
| past participle fined | /faɪnd/ /faɪnd/ |
| -ing form fining | /ˈfaɪnɪŋ/ /ˈfaɪnɪŋ/ |
- to make somebody pay money as an official punishment
- fine somebody (something) The magistrate fined him $400.
- be fined (something) Any company found to be breaking these rules will be heavily fined.
- be fined for (doing) something She was fined for speeding.
- be fined something for (doing) something The company was fined £20 000 for breaching safety regulations.
- He got fined £200 for parking illegally.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- heavily
- for
- get fined
Word Originverb 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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