| 单词 | mulct |
| 释义 | mulct (once / 13955 pages) nv The meaning of mulct is as nasty as it sounds; it means to fine someone or the money you collect as a result of a fine. No one wants to pay an extra mulct to the city, when it's the city who mismanaged the budget. Got mulct? Then somebody took your money. They "milked" you by mulcting you. And the money that they took? That's called mulct, too. Some people believe that there's no difference between being mulcted by the state and being shaken down by the mob. In fact, the word mulct is often used to mean having your money taken unfairly or as a kind of punishment or as extortion. WORD FAMILYmulct: mulcted, mulcting, mulcts USAGE EXAMPLESHe wrote in his book, confirming the sentence, and mulcting me in six francs for the costs of the case. Seingalt, Jacques Casanova de, The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de...(2012) The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(2012) The tax on advertisements checks information, fines poverty, mulcts charity, depresses literature, and impedes every species of mental activity, to realize £150,000 per annum. Various, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol....(2012) 1n money extracted as a penalty Syn|Hypo|Hyper amercement, fine library fine fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned penalty a payment required for not fulfilling a contract 2v impose a fine on Hyper impose, levy impose and collect 3v deprive of by deceit Syn|Hypo|Hyper bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize short, short-change cheat someone by not returning him enough money cheat, chisel, rip off deprive somebody of something by deceit |
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