tariff
noun
an official list or table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports or exports.
tariffed
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past participleof tariff.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof tariff.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
tariffnounan official list or table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports or exports.
Example Sentences
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According to data by Statistics Canada, the swing state of Ohio will be hardest hit, with C$3.2bn - or 12% - of its exports soon to be tariffed by Canada, followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Customs and Border Protection official recently told the trade court that companies will have to do their own accounting and upload a spreadsheet listing each wrongly tariffed good and the amount owed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Will retailers seek out customers who paid higher prices on products that were tariffed to hand them refunds?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
As American importers scrambled to switch suppliers last year, Asian producers such as Thailand and Vietnam benefitted at the expense of more highly tariffed China.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
For a minute, amid the pleasantness—poetry in tariffed items, but all the more, for guests already convicted, a challenge to consumption—they smiled at each other in confirmed fellowship.
From The Ambassadors by Henry James
