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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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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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