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Taxing

//ˈtæksɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
  2. 2
    Burdensome, difficult, exacting.

    "a taxing problem"

Adjective
  1. 1
    not easily borne; wearing wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The act of imposing a tax. countable, uncountable

    "January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of tax form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)).

Etymology 2

Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)).

Etymology 3

Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)).

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