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Tax

//tæks// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles). countable, uncountable

    "[They paid a] "mushroom tax" in addition to their regular tax of butter and meat. They had to give 1 dre of dried mushrooms annually to the district administrative centres."

  2. 2
    charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government wordnet
  3. 3
    A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service. countable, uncountable

    "Flie far from hence All private taxes, immodest phrases, What e'r may but shew like vicious."

  4. 4
    A burdensome demand; figuratively, uncountable

    "a heavy tax on time or health"

Verb
  1. 1
    To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). transitive

    "Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest."

  2. 2
    make a charge against or accuse wordnet
  3. 3
    To impose and collect a tax on (something). transitive

    "Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector."

  4. 4
    use to the limit wordnet
  5. 5
    To make excessive demands on. transitive

    "Do not tax my patience."

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  1. 6
    levy a tax on wordnet
  2. 7
    To accuse. transitive
  3. 8
    set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine) wordnet
  4. 9
    To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxō (“to appraise, value, estimate; (medieval) to tax”). Doublet of task. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for “tribute” and “rent”.

Etymology 2

From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre (“to handle, to censure, to appraise, to compute”).

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