tax
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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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tax (countable and uncountable; plural taxes)
- Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
- A burdensome demand.
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- (money paid to government): impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment. exaction, custom, demand, levy
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- (money paid to government): subsidy
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types of taxes
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other government revenues
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terms derived from tax (noun)
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money paid to government
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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.
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to impose and collect a tax
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tax m.
