tax

English

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Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō (“I handle”, “I censure”, “I appraise”, “I compute”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tax (countable and uncountable; plural taxes)

  1. Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
    • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19: 
      In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
  2. A burdensome demand.

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • (money paid to government): subsidy

Hyponyms

types of taxes

Coordinate terms

other government revenues

Derived terms

terms derived from tax (noun)

Translations

money paid to government

Verb

tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)

  1. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person).
    Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
  2. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
    Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
  3. (transitive) To make excessive demands on.

Derived terms

Translations

to impose and collect a tax
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Latin

Alternative forms

  • tux tax

Noun

tax m

  1. an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack
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Lojban

Rafsi

tax

  1. rafsi of tanxe.
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