Definition of tax

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Tax (n.) 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..

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Capitation :: Capitation (n.) A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax..
Parastichy :: Parastichy (n.) A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone..
Publican :: Publican (n.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation..
Task :: Task (v. t.) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
Farm :: Farm (v. t.) To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes..
Collectorship :: Collectorship (n.) The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
Tax :: Tax (n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court..
Pannage :: Pannage (n.) A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
Taxation :: Taxation (n.) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost..
Oppressive :: Oppressive (a.) Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law..
Carucage :: Carucage (n.) A tax on every plow or plowland.
Overtax :: Overtax (v. t.) To tax or to task too heavily.
Taxonomist :: Taxonomist (n.) One skilled in taxonomy.
Solecism :: Solecism (n.) An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax..
Undertaxed :: Undertaxed (a.) Taxed too little, or at a lower rate than others..
Cense :: Cense (n.) A census; -- also, a public rate or tax..
Toll :: Toll (v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax.
Metamer :: Metamer (n.) Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene..
Gabeler :: Gabeler (n.) A collector of gabels or taxes.
Overdo :: Overdo (v. t.) To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength..
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