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match penalty

match penalty noun: the situation where a player is sent off for the rest of the game, owing to some serious offense.

Noun

match penalty (plural match penalties)

  1. The situation where a player is sent off for the rest of the game, owing to some serious offense.

Forms of match penalty

pluralmatch penalties

Questions about match penalty

What does match penalty mean?
Match penalty means the situation where a player is sent off for the rest of the game, owing to some serious offense.
What part of speech is match penalty?
Match penalty is a noun.
What is the plural of match penalty?
The plural of match penalty is match penalties.

Words near match penalty in the dictionary

  1. match factors
  2. match fixing
  3. match made in heaven
  4. match made in hell
  5. match moving
  6. match penalty
  7. match play
  8. match point
  9. match points
  10. match race
  11. match races

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