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revertible collapse: to be returned to the former owner or that owner's heirs

reversionary collapse: of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion); "reversionary annuity"; "reversionary interest"

punitive collapse: inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive damages"

penology collapse: the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation

disciplinary collapse: relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics in its modern disciplinary sense"; relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems in the classroom"

poetic justice collapse: an outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically)

punishing collapse: resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"

retaliatory collapse: of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"

redemptive collapse: bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love"; of or relating to or resulting in redemption; "a redemptive theory about life"- E.K.Brown

rewarding collapse: providing personal satisfaction; "a rewarding career as a paramedic"

corrective collapse: a device for treating injury or disease; tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"; designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"

nemesis collapse: (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance

retribution collapse: the act of correcting for your wrongdoing; a justly deserved penalty

justification collapse: the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller; something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"; a statement in explanation of some action or belief

profitable collapse: promoting benefit or gain; "a profitable meeting to resolve difficulties"; yielding material gain or profit; "profitable speculation on the stock market"; providing profit; "a profitable conversation"

correction collapse: the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right; treatment of a specific defect; "the correction of his vision with eye glasses"; a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases; "market runups are invariably followed by a correction"; something substituted for an error; a rebuke for making a mistake; a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure

penalty collapse: (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game; the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition; "neglected his health and paid the penalty"; a payment required for not fulfilling a contract

judgment collapse: the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"; (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it; the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions; the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions; an opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind"

scourge collapse: a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor); punish severely; excoriate

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