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Mulct
(redirected from mulcting)

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MULCT, punishment. A fine imposed on the conviction of an offence.

MULCT, commerce. An imposition laid on ships or goods by a company of trade, for the maintenance of consuls and the like. Obsolete.
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Michael Milken also went to jail, but not a single charge against him involved Lincoln, the mulcting of the taxpayers, or the use of their money in creating a junk bond market that disrupted the economy of the entire country.
Will Charlie Keating ride again? Congress is once again looking at ... by Davis, L.J. / Washington Monthly
It also enmeshes anyone foolish enough to hire that person, and creates apparatuses of surveillance and control that could easily be extended to other purposes less clearly noble than mulcting cash from deadbeat dads.
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