Tariff
['tærɪf]
Definition
(n.) A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833).
(n.) The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound.
(n.) Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares.
(v. t.) To make a list of duties on, as goods.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Schedule of duties (on imports or on exports).
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Definition
n. a list of the duties &c. fixed by law on merchandise: a list of charges fees or prices.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A scale of taxes on imports designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
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Examples
- We have elaborate governmental mechanisms--like the tariff, for example, which we go on making more scientific year in, year out--having long since lost sight of their human purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His Democratic opponents, especially Woodrow Wilson, are, as I write, in the midst of the Presidential campaign of 1912, trying to focus attention on the tariff. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But anyone who makes the tariff the principal concern of statecraft is, I believe, mistaking the hedge for the house. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Thus Mr. Roosevelt has always had a remarkable power of diverting the country from the tariff to the control of the trusts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That a statecraft might deal with the tariff as an aid to its purposes is evident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The tariff controversy is almost as old as the nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The everlasting reiterations about the tariff take up altogether too much time. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He also indicated the two methods of telephonic tariff--a fixed rental and a toll; and mentioned the practice, now in use on long-distance lines, of a time charge. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That minister, by the tariff of 1667, imposed very high duties upon a great number of foreign manufactures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They can center it upon the tariff or the trusts or even the currency. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Tradition has centered upon the tariff, the trusts, the currency, and electoral machinery as the items of consideration. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To any government that was clear about values, that saw all problems in their relation to human life, the tariff would be an incident, a mechanical device and little else. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They were defeated in 1905 in an attempt to establish a tariff wall on the Teutonic model. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is said that a stranger took a one-horse carriage for a course --tariff, half a franc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Having read a number of articles on the tariff and ploughed through the metaphysics of the currency question, what do they do? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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