verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
impose/mete out a punishment formal (= give someone a punishment )
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Life imprisonment should be the maximum punishment meted out by the state.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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But as regards its prisons and its meting out of justice, it is clearly having difficulty living up to that image.
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Did the world always mete out just deserts?
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The gods could be publicly called upon to mete out justice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But as regards its prisons and its meting out of justice, it is clearly having difficulty living up to that image.
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Did the world always mete out just deserts?
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The gods could be publicly called upon to mete out justice.