The court may reprimand a child instead of convicting them A note of the reprimand is kept and will be taken account of if the child reoffends •Children & Criminal Law
If someone is reprimanded, they are spoken to angrily or seriously for doing something wrong, usually by a person in authority. He was reprimanded by a teacher for talking in the corridor Her attempts to reprimand him were quickly shouted down. Reprimand is also a noun. He has been fined five thousand pounds and given a severe reprimand. to tell someone officially that something they have done is very wrong scold, tell off tell off reprimand sb for (doing) sth (réprimande, from , from reprimere; REPRESS)
censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"