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tax

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–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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tax-

 
var. of taxo- before a vowel: taxeme.

taxo-

 
a combining form representing taxis1 in compound words: taxonomy.
Also, tax-, taxi-.
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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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: tax
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Medieval Latin taxare to assess for taxation, tax, from Latin, to assess, value, fix
1 : to assess or determine judicially the amount of (costs of an action in court)
2 : to levy a tax on <tax the corporation> <tax capital gains> —tax·er noun

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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Idioms & Phrases

tax

In addition to the idiom beginning with tax, also see death and taxes.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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tax

imposition of compulsory levies on individuals or entities by governments. Taxes are levied in almost every country of the world, primarily to raise revenue for government expenditures, although they serve other purposes as well.

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