0 past simple and past participle of fine
1 to charge someone an amount of money as a punishment for not obeying a rule or law:
Drivers who exceed the speed limit can expect to be fined heavily.
[ + two objects ] They fined him £100 for using threatening behaviour.
The council has begun to fine drivers who park in the bus lanes.
The judge decided to fine him rather than impose a prison sentence.
He was fined for impersonating a police officer.
Punishments depended on the offence, but she could be warned by the wet-nursing inspection bureau, fined or dismissed.
If a ' doctor ' who is not currently registered holds himself out as being so registered, he is liable to be fined or imprisoned.
On the other hand, only 6 per cent indicated that the probability of being fined given detection was 50 per cent or more.
