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: --
[ + two objects ] They fined him £100 for using threatening behaviour.
Drivers who exceed the speed limit can expect to be fined heavily.
Certainly, both brewers and bakers were regularly fined for breaking the assize.
Members were often jailed and fined for violating ordinances and laws pertaining to public order and were targeted by antiterrorism measures.
A small number of offenders have been fined in the intervening decades.
If barrio leaders were gaoled or excessively fined, they retaliated by blocking labour demands or disappearing.
In a sensational and well-publicized trial in 1999 the author of these sentiments was fined for causing unnecessary suffering to a chimpanzee. 62.
He suggests that dozens more were sentenced to shorter terms or fined.
They could be officially fined for neglect of duty.
In cases where information was withheld, compound heads were fined 5 to 10 shillings.
