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FREE CDs from BMG Music Service with membership! Take 12 CDs For the Price of 1 NOTHING MORE TO BUY, EVER! 100% Risk FREE! http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/33510/101166/101166 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/33510/101166/101166"< AOL users click here </a< =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Word of the Day for Friday October 12, 2001: mulct \MULKT\, noun: A fine or penalty. transitive verb: 1. To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or demanding a forfeiture. 2. To obtain by fraud or deception. 3. To defraud; to swindle. Officials repaid such loans by mulcting the public in a variety of legal and extra-legal ways. --William H. McNeill, [1]A World History The fact that major corporations don't have to pay their own way, and instead are able to enlist legislators to mulct common citizens -- and businesses with more modest Washington connections -- deforms the entire political system. --Doug Bandow, "The Bipartisan Scandal of U.S. Corporate Welfare" [S]tate lawmakers and state courts... [have] ditched old common law rules so as to charge deep-pocket defendants with harms that were once considered other people's fault, thus making it thinkable to mulct automakers for the costs of drunk drivers' crashes --Walter Olson, "Firing Squad," [2]Reason, May 1999 _________________________________________________________ Mulct comes from Latin multa, "a fine." References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/019511616X/lexico 2. http://www.reason.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: susan.w.pereira@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-301289Q@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2001, Lexico LLC.
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