tax
a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand.
(of a government)
to demand a tax from (a person, business, etc.).
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.
to lay a burden on; make serious demands on: to tax one's resources.
to take to task; censure; reprove; accuse: to tax one with laziness.
Informal. to charge: What did he tax you for that?
Archaic. to estimate or determine the amount or value of.
to levy taxes.
Origin of tax
1Other words for tax
Other words from tax
- taxer, noun
- tax·ing·ly, adverb
- taxless, adjective
- tax·less·ly, adverb
- tax·less·ness, noun
- an·ti·tax, adjective
- non·tax, noun, adjective
- non·tax·er, noun
- pro·tax, adjective
- re·tax, verb (used with object)
- self-taxed, adjective
- sub·tax·er, noun
- un·der·taxed, adjective
- un·tax, verb (used with object)
- well-taxed, adjective
Words that may be confused with tax
- tacks, tax
Other definitions for tax- (2 of 2)
variant of taxo- before a vowel: taxeme.
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How to use tax in a sentence
It also included a more complicated but extremely valuable tax break for businesses known as pass-throughs.
Georgia Senator David Perdue Privately Pushed for a Tax Break for Rich Sports Teamowners | by Robert Faturechi and Justin Elliott | November 20, 2020 | ProPublicaThe tax applies to companies in which the highest-paid managerial employee earns 100 times more than the median worker in San Francisco.
What will San Francisco’s new “CEO tax” actually accomplish? | Dan Kopf | November 15, 2020 | QuartzHis distributor was adding the tax directly to his pharmacy’s cost for the drugs.
Patients struggle to access prescription opioids after New York tax drives away suppliers | lbelanger225 | November 15, 2020 | FortuneThrough Americans for Prosperity, they got over 400 members of Congress to sign a pledge to vote against climate change legislation that does not include equivalent tax cuts.
Charles Koch looks back on his political legacy: “Boy, did we screw up!” | Nicole Goodkind | November 14, 2020 | FortuneIn addition, severely disabled veterans living off of VA benefits were initially required to file a tax return to get stimulus checks.
Eight reasons COVID-19 has hit veterans particularly hard | By Jamie Rowen/The Conversation | November 11, 2020 | Popular-Science
Loosies are generally bought by cigarette addicts who have trouble affording a whole pack at the taxed rate.
Money is money, but the proposition is not all that compelling once you are taxed on the income.
I am right there with them ideologically, I mean, ‘Taxed Enough Already.’
Conservative Senator Kicks Tea Party to the Curb | David Freedlander | May 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo Hatch, Burr, and Coburn would have taxed benefits starting at about 65 percent of the average cost of a plan.
This allowance worked for the state (Maria Theresa taxed their production).
What to Drink When it’s Cold? The Glory of Austrian Schnaps | Jordan Salcito | January 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe amount of the taxed costs is one hundred and thirty-three, six, four, Mr. Perker.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2) | Charles DickensFrom there on Piegan set a pace that taxed our horses' mettle—that was one consolation—we were well mounted.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairThe colonies claim, he said, "the privilege of all British subjects of being taxed only with their own consent."
The Eve of the Revolution | Carl BeckerThe Church of England was the established church of Virginia, and the people were taxed for the parsons' salaries.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyThe finances of the country are being taxed to the utmost to find the extra "palm-oil" which these mercenaries demand.
British Dictionary definitions for tax
/ (tæks) /
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
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
Origin of tax
1Derived forms of tax
- taxer, noun
- taxless, adjective
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
Other Idioms and Phrases with tax
In addition to the idiom beginning with tax
- tax with
also see:
- death and taxes
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