| capital transfer tax | |
| —n | |
| (in Britain) a tax payable from 1974 to 1986 at progressive rates on the cumulative total of gifts of money or property made during the donor's lifetime or after his death. It was replaced by inheritance tax | |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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