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prepunish en · VERB

Etymology

From pre- + punish.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To punish in advance.
   • Too many administrators place limits on their users not because of any increase in security that those limits provide, but out of some twisted desire to prepunish users for potential transgressions, in the hope that this will cow them into more quiescent obedience to the rules. 2003, John Ray, William Ray, Mac OS X Maximum Security, page 256:

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