tax
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxō (“to appraise, value, estimate; (medieval) to tax”). Doublet of task. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for “tribute” and “rent”.
Inflected forms:
form: taxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: taxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: taxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: taxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [They paid a] "mushroom tax" in addition to their regular tax of butter and meat. They had to give 1 dre of dried mushrooms annually to the district administrative centres.
The [General Farm] organization collected a tax on salt (gabelle) and another on alcohol and tobacco (aide), along with customs duties (traites) and duties on goods entering Paris from elsewhere in France (entrées). Evasion of all of these taxes through smugglign and other fraud was epidemic[…]
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
gloss: A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Flie far from hence
All private taxes, immodest phrases,
What e'r may but shew like vicious.
Scrambled egg with cheese [...] careful with the cheese here because it is the main reason for Roxie's runs... [but] We pay a lot of cheese tax in the house [i.e., when we eat cheese, the dog demands to also be given some].
gloss: A burdensome demand
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: a heavy tax on time or health
In the expectation that such would be the case, I came but slightly attended, sending most of my people with the heavy baggage by sea to the Indus, and I took every precaution to render the tax of my support as light as possible, by furnishing a memorandum of the number of persons composing my suite, and limiting the amount of supplies each should receive.
The extent of the traffic is a tax on the existing yard in the area at Frodingham, the busiest in the District.
gloss: To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
Taxing the food and chemical industries, which make billions off our food consumption, could be another way to generate revenue for the program.
gloss: To impose and collect a tax on (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
gloss: To make excessive demands on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Do not tax my patience.
The people of the southeasterly clusters—concerning whom, however, but little is known—have a bad name as cannibals; and for that reason their hospitality is seldom taxed by the mariner.
The heavy freight traffic which shares the double line between Paddington and Wolverhampton with the passenger traffic has taxed the ingenuity of the timetable planners.
But patent applications are increasingly accompanied by volumes and volumes of data on DVD, which taxes the resources of the patent office.
gloss: To accuse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: ad valorem tax
after-tax
alignment tax
alternative minimum tax
antitax
Apple tax
bedroom tax
black tax
blood-tax
blood tax
Cadillac tax
capital gains tax
carbon tax
cat tax
certain as death and taxes
corporate tax
council tax
death and taxes
death tax
deposit interest retention tax
detax
direct tax
indirect tax
dog tax
double tax agreement
dumb tax
ecotax
fart tax
fat tax
flat rate tax
flatulence tax
fortax
goods and sales tax
Google tax
graduate tax
granny tax
green tax
hearth tax
hidden tax
hut tax
hypertax
idiot tax
income tax return
iPod tax
Jewish tax
kiddie tax
kosher tax
loyalty tax
luxury tax
Microsoft tax
millage tax
mistax
mommy tax
negative income tax
nontax
nuisance tax
overtax
pasty tax
payroll tax
pink tax
poll-tax
posttax
pretax
pre-tax
progressive tax
real estate tax
retax
road tax
Robin Hood tax
robot tax
roof tax
severance tax
single-taxism
sponge tax
stamp tax
stealth tax
stealth-tax
stereotype tax
stupidity tax
stupid tax
subtax
sunshine tax
supertax
sure as death and taxes
sweetheart tax deal
tartan tax
tax abatement
taxability
tax accounting
Taxachusetts
taxaholic
tax assessment
tax assessor
tax auditor
tax authority
tax avoidance
tax avoision
tax base
taxbite
tax bite
tax bracket
tax break
tax cart
tax clinic
tax collection
tax collector
tax credit
tax cut
Tax Day
tax declaration
tax-deductible
tax-deferred
tax disc
tax disk
tax dodge
tax dodger
tax due
taxeater
taxeating
taxee
tax efficiency
tax-efficient
tax evader
tax evasion
tax-exempt
tax exemption
tax exile
tax-farming
tax farming
taxflation
tax fraud
tax free
tax-free
taxgatherer
taxgathering
tax haven
tax hike
tax horsepower
tax incentive
tax inspector
tax law
taxless
taxlike
tax lot
tax man
taxman
taxocracy
taxocrat
tax office
taxor
taxpaid
taxpayer
taxpaying
taxpayment
tax point
tax protester
tax rate
tax reduction
tax relief
tax resistance
tax resister
tax return
tax revenue
tax rise
tax season
tax shelter
tax-sheltered
tax shield
tax shift
tax stamp
tax swap
tax time
tax value
tax wedge
taxwise
taxwoman
tax wrapper
tax year
undertax
untax
value-added tax
wealth tax
wheel tax
windfall tax
Windows tax
window tax
withholding tax
taxable
taxation
Translations:
lang: Amharic
word: ቀረጠ
roman: ḳäräṭä
lang: Armenian
word: հարկել
roman: harkel
lang: Bulgarian
word: облагам
roman: oblagam
lang: Catalan
word: gravar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 徵稅 /征税
roman: zhēngshuì
lang: Czech
word: danit
lang: Danish
word: beskatte
lang: Dutch
word: belasting heffen
lang: Esperanto
word: imposti
lang: Finnish
word: verottaa
lang: French
word: imposer
lang: French
word: taxer
lang: German
word: besteuern
lang: Greek
word: φορολογώ
roman: forologó
lang: Hindi
word: उगाही
roman: ugāhī
lang: Hungarian
word: megadóztat
lang: Ido
word: impostar
lang: Ido
word: impostizar
lang: Italian
word: tassare
lang: Lao
word: ກັບພາສີ
roman: kap phā sī
lang: Māori
word: tāke
lang: Middle English
word: taxen
lang: Norwegian
word: skattelegge
lang: Old English
word: gafolian
lang: Polish
word: opodatkowywać
lang: Polish
word: opodatkować
lang: Portuguese
word: tributar
lang: Portuguese
word: taxar
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: oporezívati
lang: Slovene
word: obdavčiti
lang: Spanish
word: asignar impuestos
lang: Spanish
word: cobrar gabelas
lang: Spanish
word: gravar
lang: Swedish
word: beskatta
lang: Ukrainian
word: оподатко́вувати
roman: opodatkóvuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: оподаткува́ти
roman: opodatkuváty
lang: Welsh
word: trethu