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tax

  [taks]
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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   (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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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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