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tax⋅ing

  [tak-sing]
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–adjective
wearingly burdensome: the day-to-day, taxing duties of a supervisor.
Origin:
1790–1800; tax + -ing 2

Related forms:
tax⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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tax

  [taks]
–noun
1. a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
2. a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand.
–verb (used with object)
3. (of a government)
a. to demand a tax from (a person, business, etc.).
b. to demand a tax in consideration of the possession or occurrence of (income, goods, sales, etc.), usually in proportion to the value of money involved.
4. to lay a burden on; make serious demands on: to tax one's resources.
5. to take to task; censure; reprove; accuse: to tax one with laziness.
6. Informal. to charge: What did he tax you for that?
7. Archaic. to estimate or determine the amount or value of.
–verb (used without object)
8. to levy taxes.
Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) ME taxen < ML taxāre to tax, appraise, L: to appraise, handle, freq. of tangere to touch; (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
taxer, noun
tax⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
taxless, adjective
tax⋅less⋅ly, adverb
tax⋅less⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. duty, impost, levy. 4. strain, tire, stretch.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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tax   (tāks)   
n.  

  1. A contribution for the support of a government required of persons, groups, or businesses within the domain of that government.

  2. A fee or dues levied on the members of an organization to meet its expenses.

  3. A burdensome or excessive demand; a strain.

tr.v.   taxed, tax·ing, tax·es

  1. To place a tax on (income, property, or goods).

  2. To exact a tax from.

  3. Law To assess (court costs, for example).

  4. To make difficult or excessive demands upon: a boss who taxed everyone's patience.

  5. To make a charge against; accuse: He was taxed with failure to appear on the day appointed.


[Middle English, from taxen, to tax, from Old French taxer, from Medieval Latin taxāre, from Latin, to touch, reproach, reckon, frequentative of tangere, to touch; see tag- in Indo-European roots.]
tax'er n.
tax·ing   (tāk'sĭng)   
adj.  Burdensome; wearing: a taxing business schedule.
tax'ing·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

tax  (v.)
c.1290, from O.Fr. taxer "impose a tax" (13c.), from L. taxare "evaluate, estimate, assess, handle," also "censure, charge," probably a frequentative form of tangere "to touch" (see tangent). Sense of "burden, put a strain on" first recorded 1672; that of "censure, reprove" is from 1569. Use in Luke ii for Gk. apographein "to enter on a list, enroll" is due to Tyndale. The noun is recorded from 1327. Tax shelter is attested from 1961; taxpayer from 1816.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: tax
Function: noun
often attrib 1 : a charge usually of money imposed by legislative or other public authority upon persons or property for public purposes
2 : a sum levied on members of an organization to defray expenses
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Bible Dictionary

Taxing

(Luke 2:2; R.V., "enrolment"), "when Cyrenius was governor of Syria," is simply a census of the people, or an enrolment of them with a view to their taxation. The decree for the enrolment was the occasion of Joseph and Mary's going up to Bethlehem. It has been argued by some that Cyrenius (q.v.) was governor of Cilicia and Syria both at the time of our Lord's birth and some years afterwards. This decree for the taxing referred to the whole Roman world, and not to Judea alone. (See CENSUS.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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