tax

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See also: tax- and тах

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English taxe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman tax and Old French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa.

Noun

tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)

  1. Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
    • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎[1], 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.
  2. A burdensome demand.
    a heavy tax on time or health
  3. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
  4. (obsolete) charge; censure
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  5. (obsolete) A lesson to be learned.
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Synonyms
Antonyms
  • (money paid to government): subsidy
Hyponyms
types of taxes

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Coordinate terms
other government revenues

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Derived terms
terms derived from tax (noun)

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Descendants

  • Tok Pisin: takis
    • → Rotokas: takisi
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English taxen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō (“I handle”, “I censure”, “I appraise”, “I compute”).

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
    Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
    • 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 251:
      Taxing the food and chemical industries, which make billions off our food consumption, could be another way to generate revenue for the program.
  2. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
    Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
  3. (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
    Do not tax my patience.
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  4. (transitive) To accuse.
  5. (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
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Latin

Alternative forms

Interjection

tax

  1. an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack
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References

  • “tax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “tax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

tax c

  1. a dachshund (dog breed)

Declension

Declension of tax 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tax taxen taxar taxarna
Genitive tax taxens taxars taxarnas
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