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skat

American  
[skaht, skat] / skɑt, skæt /

noun

  1. a card game for three players, using a pack of 32 playing cards, sevens through aces, the object being to fulfill any of various contracts, with scoring computed on strategy and on tricks won.


skat British  
/ skæt /

noun

  1. a three-handed card game using 32 cards, popular in German-speaking communities

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of skat

1860–65; < German skat < Italian scarto, derivative of scartare to discard, equivalent to s- ex- 1 + -cartare, derivative of carta card 1

Example Sentences

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But now much of his fortune is frozen, the result of legal action by Denmark's tax authority, SKAT.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2021

In August 2015, the dividends stopped flowing out of SKAT, though not because of sirens set off by anyone inside the agency.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2018

A team of 60 investigators found that the bank was used by 27 of the American pension plans, which were ultimately paid a total of about $168 million by SKAT.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2018

This outpost of SKAT, as the I.R.S. in Denmark is known, seems an improbable setting for what the authorities call one of the great financial crimes in the country’s history.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2018

In 2013, all that stood between Solo Capital and Denmark’s treasury was the bespectacled, gray-haired veteran of SKAT, Sven Nielsen.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2018

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