tax
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō (“I handle”, “I censure”, “I appraise”, “I compute”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
tax (countable and uncountable; plural taxes)
- Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
- In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
- A burdensome demand.
Synonyms [edit]
- (money paid to government): impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment. exaction, custom, demand, levy
Antonyms [edit]
- (money paid to government): subsidy
Hyponyms [edit]
types of taxes
Coordinate terms [edit]
other government revenues
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from tax (noun)
Translations [edit]
money paid to government
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Verb [edit]
tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person).
- Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
- (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
- Do not tax my patience.
- 2007 January 16, IBM, “IBM - Reinventing the invention system - United States”:
- But patent applications are increasingly accompanied by volumes and volumes of data on DVD, which taxes the resources of the patent office.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to impose and collect a tax
Latin [edit]
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Noun [edit]
tax m
- an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack
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