English Dictionary
Definition of “tax”
tax (tæks
)
Definitions
noun
- a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services, etc
- a heavy demand on something; strain ⇒
a tax on our resources
verb (tr)
- to levy a tax on (persons, companies, etc, or their incomes, etc)
- to make heavy demands on; strain ⇒
to tax one's intellect
- to accuse, charge, or blame ⇒
he was taxed with the crime
- to determine (the amount legally chargeable or allowable to a party to a legal action), as by examining the solicitor's bill of costs ⇒
to tax costs
- slang to steal
Alternative Forms
ˈtaxer noun ˈtaxless adjective Word Origin
C13: from Old French taxer, from Latin taxāre to appraise, from tangere to touch
Synonyms
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charge,
rate,
duty,
toll,
levy,
tariff,
excise,
contribution,
assessment,
customs,
tribute,
imposition,
tithe,
impost,
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strain,
push,
stretch,
try,
test,
task,
load,
burden,
drain,
exhaust,
weaken,
weary,
put pressure on
sap,
wear out,
weigh heavily on
overburden,
make heavy demands on
enervate,
Quotations
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes"
Benjamin Franklin"The Chancellor of the Exchequer is a man whose duties make him more or less of a taxing machine. He is entrusted with a certain amount of misery which it is his duty to distribute as fairly as he can"
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men"
Edmund Burke"If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing"
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Only the little people pay taxes"
Leona Helmsley"Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them"
Margaret Mitchell"Read my lips: no new taxes"
George Bush"Taxation without representation is tyranny"
James Otis"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin"
Mark Twain"Income Tax has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf"
Will Rogers
Translations
- British English:
tax
Tax is an amount of money that you have to pay to the government so that it can pay for public services....the basic rate of income tax.tæks NOUN ...the basic rate of income tax.
- Spanish:
impuesto
nm
- French:
impôt
nm
- German:
Steuer
nf
- Chinese: 税 n
- Arabic: ضَرِيبَة n
- Portuguese: imposto nm
- Russian: налог nm
- Croatian: porez nm
- Czech: daň nf
- Danish: skat nutr
- Dutch: belasting nf
- Finnish: vero n
- Greek: φόρος nm
- Italian: tassa nf
- Japanese: 税金 n
- Korean: 세금 n
- Norwegian: skatt nm
- Polish: podatek nm
- Brazilian Portuguese: imposto nm
- European Spanish:
impuesto
nm
- Swedish: skatt nutr
- Thai: ภาษี n
- Turkish: vergi n
- Vietnamese: thuế n
Usage examples
Immigration lists, tax rosters, property registers had all drawn a blank.
Val McDermid, THE LAST TEMPTATION (2002)Residents in the Home Counties will continue to pay some of the highest council tax rates in the country.
Country Life (2004)The tax cuts were combined with a switch towards a system of individual tax credits rather than tax bands.
Irish Times (2002)Do not forget: the new 10 % tax band was introduced in the 1999-2000 tax year.
Glasgow Herald (2001)There had been some coins too, the tax yield, the first plunder of Thomas's command.
Bernard Cornwell, The Grail Quest (3) HERETIC (2004)
