Tax Definition
tax
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English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxare (“to handle", "censure", "appraise", "compute”)
Pronunciation
Noun
tax (countable and uncountable; plural taxes)
- (government) Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
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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Verb
to tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)
- (transitive, government) To impose and collect a tax from.
- (transitive) To use to the limit
- Do not tax my patience.
- 2007 January 16, IBM, “IBM - Reinventing the invention system - United States”, IDEAS from IBM:
- But patent applications are increasingly accompanied by volumes and volumes of data on DVD, which taxes the resources of the patent office.
Derived terms
Translations
to impose and collect a tax
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Latin
Alternative forms
- tux tax
Noun
tax
- an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack
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