| direct tax | |
| —n | |
| Compare indirect tax a tax paid by the person or organization on which it is levied | |
| direct taxation | |
| —n | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |