tax

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Hyponyms 1.3.2 Coordinate terms 1.3.3 Derived terms 1.3.4 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 Translations 2 Latin 2.1 Alternative spellings 2.2 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“‘to impose a tax’”), from Latin taxare (“‘to handle", "censure", "appraise", "compute’”)

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• tăks, /tæks/, /t{ks/
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• Homophones: tacks
• Rhymes: -æks

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tax (countable and uncountable; plural taxes)

1. (government) Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.

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to tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)

1. (transitive, government) To impose and collect a tax from.
2. (transitive) To use to the limit
   • Do not tax my patience.
   • 2007 January 16, IBM, “IBM - Reinventing the invention system - United States”, IDEAS from IBM:

     But patent applications are increasingly accompanied by volumes and volumes of data on DVD, which taxes the resources of the patent office.

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• taxable
• taxation

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• Also spelled tux tax.

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tax

1. an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack
   • Persa by Plautus

     Tax tax- tergo meo erit. Non curo.

     My back will get whack, whack. I don't care.

     (Whack whack- it will be upon my back. I don't care.)