Tax
[tæks]
Definition
(noun.) charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government.
(verb.) make a charge against or accuse; 'They taxed him failure to appear in court'.
(verb.) use to the limit; 'you are taxing my patience'.
(verb.) levy a tax on; 'The State taxes alcohol heavily'; 'Clothing is not taxed in our state'.
(verb.) set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine).
Checker: Prudence--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
(n.) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
(n.) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
(n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
(n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
(n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
(n.) Charge; censure.
(n.) A lesson to be learned; a task.
(n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
(n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
(n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
Checker: Sigmund
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Impost, duty, custom, toll, excise, tribute, assessment, rate, levy.[2]. Demand, burden, charge, requisition.
v. a. [1]. Put a tax upon, assess tribute upon.[2]. Burden, load, task, make demands upon.[3]. Accuse, charge, lay upon.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Duty, rate, impost, assessment, toll, tribute,[See BABBLE]
Checker: Presley
Definition
n. a rate imposed on property or persons for the benefit of the state: anything imposed: a burdensome duty.—v.t. to lay a tax on: to register or enrol for fiscal purposes (Luke ii. 1): to burden: to accuse: to examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.—ns. Taxabil′ity Tax′ableness.—adj. Tax′able capable of being or liable to be taxed—adv. Tax′ably.—ns. Taxā′tion act of taxing; Tax′-cart a light spring-cart; Tax′er.—adj. Tax′free exempt from taxation.—ns. Tax′-gath′erer; Taxim′eter (see Addenda); Tax′ing-mas′ter an officer of a court of law who examines bills of costs; Tax′-pay′er.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you pay your taxes, foretells you will succeed in destroying evil influences rising around you. If others pay them, you will be forced to ask aid of friends. If you are unable to pay them, you will be unfortunate in experiments you are making.
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Examples
- There were, in fact, but few things which Luttrell did not vote a tax on life, being one of the most dissatisfied men I ever knew. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He considers what the land will cost him, in tax and price together. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- 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. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This tax, therefore, so far offends against the first of the four maxims above mentioned. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Be it so, said the King; but for thine own sake tax me not with usurpation now. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But the revenue of the sovereign does not, in any part of Europe, arise chiefly from a land tax or land rent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Such taxes appear to me to be revolutionary. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is much shorter, and probably not quite so exact as that of the French taxes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Taxes upon the profits of stock, in particular employments, can never affect the interest of money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Such taxes, when destined for the maintenance of the state, have some advantages, which may serve in some measure to balance their inconveniency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Upon the whole, such taxes, therefore, are perhaps as agreeable to the three first of the four general maxims concerning taxation, as any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- What was the Crown to him except the King's Taxes? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Capitation taxes are levied at little expense; and, where they are rigorously exacted, afford a very sure revenue to the state. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The property of the rich was taxed or confiscated in order that it should be divided among the poor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But there was an equally strong desire on the part of ordinary men to be neither taxed nor interfered with in their ordinary pursuits. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is in England taxed at three shillings and fourpence a bushel; about three times the original price of the commodity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Attending court the other day--I attend it regularly, with my documents--I taxed him with it, and he almost confessed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Their expense is taxed, by taxing the consumable commodities upon which it is laid out. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A family which exercised great hospitality, would be taxed much more lightly than one who entertained fewer guests. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The interest of money seems, at first sight, a subject equally capable of being taxed directly as the rent of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Their expense is taxed, by taxing the consumable commodities upon which it is laid out. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The parliament of Great Britain insists upon taxing the colonies; and they refuse to be taxed by a parliament in which they are not represented. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Well, but now, Casaubon, such deep studies, classics, mathematics, that kind of thing, are too taxing for a woman--too taxing, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Melinda