Taxing
['tæksɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tax
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Definition
n. (Shak.) satire.
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Examples
- 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.
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