"bring to book" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brings to book",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bringing to book",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to book",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to book",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bring<,,brought> to book"
      },
      "expansion": "bring to book (third-person singular simple present brings to book, present participle bringing to book, simple past and past participle brought to book)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The perpetrators of this atrocity must be brought to book.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 May 4, Ian Tomlinson, “Unlawfully killed by the law”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "For the most part this happens in Britain, but there can be chilling lapses in the most serious cases, as was seen in the pall thrown over Blair Peach's killing for 30 years, and in the failure to bring the Met to book over the de Menezes case, other than through health and safety laws.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 February 17, John Reed, “Modi is supposed to represent all of us”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3",
          "text": "[Indira] Jaising is openly irritated that she was brought to book after being credited with landmark human rights cases and helping to draft India's domestic violence law.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To penalise someone for a punishable offence."
      ],
      "id": "en-bring_to_book-en-verb-R0nzpF5b",
      "links": [
        [
          "penalise",
          "penalise"
        ],
        [
          "punishable",
          "punishable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) To penalise someone for a punishable offence."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bring to justice"
        },
        {
          "word": "throw the book at"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bring to book"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brings to book",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bringing to book",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to book",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "brought to book",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bring<,,brought> to book"
      },
      "expansion": "bring to book (third-person singular simple present brings to book, present participle bringing to book, simple past and past participle brought to book)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bring to justice"
    },
    {
      "word": "throw the book at"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Rhymes:English/ʊk",
        "Rhymes:English/ʊk/3 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The perpetrators of this atrocity must be brought to book.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 May 4, Ian Tomlinson, “Unlawfully killed by the law”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "For the most part this happens in Britain, but there can be chilling lapses in the most serious cases, as was seen in the pall thrown over Blair Peach's killing for 30 years, and in the failure to bring the Met to book over the de Menezes case, other than through health and safety laws.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 February 17, John Reed, “Modi is supposed to represent all of us”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3",
          "text": "[Indira] Jaising is openly irritated that she was brought to book after being credited with landmark human rights cases and helping to draft India's domestic violence law.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To penalise someone for a punishable offence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "penalise",
          "penalise"
        ],
        [
          "punishable",
          "punishable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) To penalise someone for a punishable offence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bring to book"
}