’Tis a Land-tax, vvhich he’s too poor to pay; / You, therefore muſt ſome other Impoſt lay.
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Impost
//ˈɪmpəʊst//
Synonyms for "impost" (66 found)
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6 translations across 4 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- данък noun (tax)
- налог noun (tax)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- خراج noun (tax)
- ویركی noun (tax)
Polish
1 entries- podatek noun (tax)
Romanian
1 entries- impozit noun (tax)
Sample sentences
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1752, David Hume, Political Discourses, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, “Of Taxes,” p. 120, […] a duty upon commodities checks itself; and a prince will soon find, that an encrease of the impost is no encrease of his revenue.
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[…] before the sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts they had ceased to pay;
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The Ashanti traded with the tribes to the north and with coastal folk to the south, and caravans going in either direction were liable for imposts according to the nature of the goods they carried.
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