Excise
['eksaɪz] or [ɛk'saɪz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate).
(verb.) remove by cutting; 'The surgeon excised the tumor'.
(verb.) levy an excise tax on.
贝茜手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.
(n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.
(v. t.) To lay or impose an excise upon.
(v. t.) To impose upon; to overcharge.
(v. t.) To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
編輯:梅森
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Inland duty, tax upon home products.
邦妮整理
解釋/意思:
n. a tax on certain home commodities and on licenses for certain trades; the department in the civil administration which is concerned with this tax.—v.t. to subject to excise duty.—adj. Excis′able liable to excise duty.—n. Excise′man an officer charged with collecting the excise.
v.t. to cut off or out.—n. Exci′sion a cutting out or off of any kind: extirpation.
阿尔塔編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The coach-tax and plate tax are examples of the former method of imposing; the greater part of the other duties of excise and customs, of the latter. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The duties of excise are imposed chiefly upon goods of home produce, destined for home consumption. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In addition to scientific discoveries, the manufacture of glass in England received a great impetus by the removal of onerous excise duties which had been imposed on its manufacture. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It is otherwise with goods subject to duties of excise. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The aides, which correspond to the excise in England, are very different in different provinces. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The excise duty upon Scotch salt is at present 1s:6d. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In point of perspicuity, precision, and distinctness, therefore, the duties of customs are much inferior to those of excise. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The cautery consists of a loop of platinum wire carried by a suitable non-conducting handle, with means for constricting the white hot loop of wire about the tumor or object to be excised. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
編輯:马克斯