Definition of tax

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Tax (n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject..

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Record :: Record (v. t.) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes..
Gabel :: Gabel (n.) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise..
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..
Taxation :: Taxation (n.) Charge; accusation.
Construe :: Construe (v. t. ) To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate..
Expenitor :: Expenitor (n.) A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers..
Paratactic :: Paratactic (a.) Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis..
Pressure :: Pressure (n.) A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization..
Cess :: Cess (v. t.) To rate; to tax; to assess.
Ataxy :: Ataxy (n.) Disorder; irregularity.
Sess :: Sess (n.) A tax; an assessment. See Cess.
Triple :: Triple (a.) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee..
Obrok :: Obrok (n.) A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.
Groundage :: Groundage (n.) A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.
Gelt :: Gelt (n.) Trubute, tax..
Stumper :: Stumpage (n.) A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber..
Phyllo- :: Phyllo- () A combining form from Gr. / a leaf; as, phyllopod, phyllotaxy..
Benevolence :: Benevolence (n.) A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity..
Preataxic :: Preataxic (a.) Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions..
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