qualifier token a chosen word

price component type

What one line of a composed total is — the base price, a cleaning fee, a refundable deposit, a surcharge, an installation or activation fee, or a regulatory fee (eco-fee, recycling fee, import charge, battery fee, container deposit). A qualifier of the price-component host, bound to one component statement; a filterable token from a growing vocabulary. Tax/VAT lines are a separate concern, not here.

Price component type is answered with one word chosen from the price component types list — the same word shared across every product that uses it.

It is a qualifier of price component — it has meaning only inside a price component statement, one per statement, never on its own. It belongs with price component to pricing — what it costs.

It is answered inside every price component statement, not as a standalone question on a kind.

answered with: ◇token — a token — a word chosen from a fixed vocabulary, shared and filterable across products.
value domain: Price Component Types — the vocabulary its answers are drawn from.
qualifier of: price component — one per statement — it has meaning only inside that host's statement.

Answered inside every price component statement — not a standalone slot on any kind.