**Pronunciation:** drain-ay-shun (rhymes with "inflation")
**Part of Speech:** Noun
**Definition:**
The gradual draining of money from circulation in the economy due to successive or repeated taxation on the same money as it changes hands through earning, spending, transfers, and transactions. This cumulative tax burden reduces overall purchasing power without appearing as overt inflation, effectively siphoning funds from the public to government coffers.
**Verb Form (optional addition):** Drainate (v.) – To subject money or the economy to draination.
**Part of Speech:** Noun
**Definition:**
The gradual draining of money from circulation in the economy due to successive or repeated taxation on the same money as it changes hands through earning, spending, transfers, and transactions. This cumulative tax burden reduces overall purchasing power without appearing as overt inflation, effectively siphoning funds from the public to government coffers.
**Verb Form (optional addition):** Drainate (v.) – To subject money or the economy to draination.
**Example Usage:**
- "Every time that dollar gets earned, spent, or resold, it gets taxed again—pure draination at work."
- "The economy suffered severe draination from layered income taxes, sales taxes, and property taxes hitting the same money over and over."
- "People are waking up to draination: the hidden way governments shrink your wealth through repeated bites on every transaction."
**Example Verb Usage:**
- "Successive taxes drainate the currency, leaving less in people's pockets."
- "Every time that dollar gets earned, spent, or resold, it gets taxed again—pure draination at work."
- "The economy suffered severe draination from layered income taxes, sales taxes, and property taxes hitting the same money over and over."
- "People are waking up to draination: the hidden way governments shrink your wealth through repeated bites on every transaction."
**Example Verb Usage:**
- "Successive taxes drainate the currency, leaving less in people's pockets."
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player2:*pushes in power button and ds turns off*
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Darwin is also someone who invented the theory of evolution.
A 'man' who falls into a relentless pursuit for his friends older and very attractive sister, she is beautiful and is clearly too good for him let alone being 2 years older than him. The traditional darwin harasses her with text messages and will never give up. He spreads lies to make himself feel better, and example of a darwin tale is written below. He is very horny. He cannot communicate with any other forms other than text messaging via a mobile communication device.
Darwin is also someone who invented the theory of evolution.
A Darwin: 'A very popular sixth former who is 3 years above me gave me head"
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He pooped inside the toilet it slide every leaving a nice brown line behind it Bob then yelled out "STAIN DRAIN!!!!!!"
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Paul: "I had this crazy dream last night. I was on trial for planning to move to Chicago, but the jury was made up of my professors. When the judge asked for the verdict, one of them stood up and said, "We have no verdict. We're just extremely dissappointed in him."
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