Definition of tax

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Tax (n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.

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Homotaxy :: Homotaxy (n.) Same as Homotaxis.
Cessment :: Cessment (v. t.) An assessment or tax.
Pedage :: Pedage (n.) A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe-conduct and protection..
Triple :: Triple (a.) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee..
Taxation :: Taxation (n.) The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue..
Stumper :: Stumpage (n.) A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber..
Pollage :: Pollage (n.) A head or poll tax; hence, extortion..
Geldable :: Geldable (a.) Liable to taxation.
Duty :: Duty (n.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods..
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..
Sconce :: Sconce (p. p.) A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
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..
Rayah :: Rayah (n.) A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax..
Taxer :: Taxer (n.) One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed..
Postaxial :: Postaxial (a.) Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb..
Expenitor :: Expenitor (n.) A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers..
Homotaxial :: Homotaxial (a.) Alt. of Homotaxi.
Treasurer :: Treasurer (n.) One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or corporation..
Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute..
Malleus :: Malleus (n.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.
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