Usually means: Legal system governing criminal offenses.
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  1. penal code: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. penal code: Merriam-Webster
  3. penal code: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. penal code: Collins English Dictionary
  5. penal code: Vocabulary.com
  6. penal code: Wordnik
  7. penal code: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. penal code: Wiktionary
  9. penal code: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. penal code: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. penal code: Dictionary.com
  12. Penal Code (Malaysia), Penal Code (Singapore), Penal Code (South Korea), Penal Code, Penal code (South Korea), Penal code, The Penal Code: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. penal code: Rhymezone
  14. penal code: FreeDictionary.org
  15. penal code: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. penal code: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. penal code: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penal code: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penal code: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See penal_codes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (penal code)

noun:  Synonym of criminal code.

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