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TAX
tax, taxation, revenue enhancement
(noun) charge against a citizen’s person or property or activity for the support of government
TAXIS
taxis
(noun) the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
taxis
(noun) a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
tax
(verb) make a charge against or accuse; “They taxed him failure to appear in court”
tax, task
(verb) use to the limit; “you are taxing my patience”
tax
(verb) levy a tax on; “The State taxes alcohol heavily”; “Clothing is not taxed in our state”
tax, assess
(verb) set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)
Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
Synonyms: impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand, levy
Antonym: subsidy
(figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
(obsolete) charge; censure
(obsolete) A lesson to be learned.
Hyponyms
• church tax
• corporation tax
• duty
• estate tax
• excise, excise tax
• flat tax
• gift tax
• goods and services tax
• gross receipts tax
• head tax
• income tax
• inheritance tax
• land tax
• poll tax
• property tax
• personal property tax
• real property tax
• sales tax
• sin tax
• sumptuary tax
• transfer tax
• use tax
• utilities tax
• value added tax
Coordinate terms
• fine
• license fee
• penalty
• seignorage
• user charge
Etymology 2
Verb
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 or company).
(transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
(transitive) To make excessive demands on.
(transitive) To accuse.
(transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
Anagrams
• ATX, xat
Source: Wiktionary
Tax, n. Etym: [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task, Taste.]
1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: -- (a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious. Macaulay.
(b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
Note: Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or indirect, etc. (c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] Clarendon.
5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] Johnson. Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.]
Syn.
– Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand.
Tax, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Taxing.] Etym: [Cf. F. taxer. See Tax, n.]
1. To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government. We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government. Franklin.
2. (Law)
Definition: To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
3. To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride. I tax you, you elements, with unkindness. Shak. Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. Dryden. Fear not now that men should tax thine honor. M. Arnold.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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