Definition of tax

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Tax (n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health..

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Taxable :: Taxable (a.) Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities..
Heterotaxy :: Heterotaxy (n.) Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement..
Escot :: Escot (n.) See Scot, a tax..
Deficit :: Deficit (n.) Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc..
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..
Tax :: Tax (n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court..
Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways..
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land..
Impost :: Impost (n.) That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country..
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..
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..
Water Rate :: Water rate () A rate or tax for a supply of water.
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural..
Tax :: Tax (n.) Charge; censure.
Stumper :: Stumpage (n.) A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber..
Phyllotaxy :: Phyllotaxy (n.) Alt. of Phyllotaxi.
Parish :: Parish (n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc..
Toll :: Toll (v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax.
Taxis :: Taxis (n.) Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it..
Fulgurating :: Fulgurating (a.) Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
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