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FPN

FPN is the initialism of fixed penalty notice.

Meaning of fixed penalty notice

Noun

fixed penalty notice (plural fixed penalty notices)

  1. (Hong-Kong, UK) A notice served on an offender by an authorised person, which is usually for committing a minor offence. It requires the offender to pay a fixed fine within a certain period of time, or appeal against it, possibly in court.
    • How will these rules be enforced?
      […] Fines for first-time offenders who breach regulations have been increased from £60 to £100 (reducing to £50 if the fixed penalty notice is paid within 14 days), […]2020 May 20, “Social distancing: Questions and answers”, in Rail, page 9
    Synonyms:
    FPN

Forms of FPN

pluralFPNs

Questions about FPN

What is FPN the initialism of?
FPN is the initialism of fixed penalty notice.

Words near FPN in the dictionary

  1. FPJ
  2. FPKM
  3. FPL
  4. fpm
  5. fpms
  6. FPN
  7. FPNs
  8. FPO
  9. fpoon
  10. fpoons
  11. FPOs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: FPN (page history and authors); fixed penalty notice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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