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reprimand

/noun rep-ruh-mand, -mahnd; verb rep-ruh-mand, -mahnd, rep-ruh-mand, -mahnd/US // noun ˈrɛp rəˌmænd, -ˌmɑnd; verb ˈrɛp rəˌmænd, -ˌmɑnd, ˌrɛp rəˈmænd, -ˈmɑnd //UK // (ˈrɛprɪˌmɑːnd) //

斥责,训斥,斥责责备,谴责

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to reprove or rebuke severely, especially in a formal way.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbblame, scold
Forms: reprimanded, reprimanding, reprimands

Examples

  • Too much time away from picking items off shelves to ship to consumers — time that is tracked by computers — can lead to reprimands that can slow raises and promotions, and even lead to termination.

  • At airports, warnings and reprimands to passengers who refuse to comply with federal security screeners gained teeth with the order.

  • It’s therefore likely that Pack and his team will leave government before receiving any reprimands.

  • The board of overseers sanctioned Mason for unprofessional conduct in 2009 for exposing himself to both women, giving him one of its lowest public sanctions — a reprimand.

  • Browder said in a deposition for the case that he faced no internal reprimands or discipline, and that the shooting didn’t even come up in his yearly performance review.

  • Two years later, the reprimand was overturned, but Mia was unsuccessful in her bid to annul the adoptions.

  • Though Steele was never charged, he was given a career-ending reprimand.

  • He failed to reprimand the MKs in question, implicitly suggesting that in the Likud, support for two states is optional at best.

  • He Made a Positive Test Result ‘Go Away’ Did Armstrong pay to have a reprimand by the International Cycling Union disappear?

  • He and one other officer received only a letter of reprimand.

  • One would think that the chorus should rather give the son a severe reprimand for speaking in so brutal a manner to his father.

  • Hoory Nicolas then began to converse with me, in the way of reprimand, for being in connexion with the English.

  • More than once had Betsy's careless behavior drawn a reprimand upon her father.

  • Maciej did not finish his sentence, however, for the offended shoemaker began to reprimand him sternly.

  • One of his first acts was severely to reprimand Puttkammer for misusing government influence at elections.