taxgatherer
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of taxgatherer
1545–55; tax + gatherer ( def. )
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They said, "He's gone to be the guest of that miserable, cheating traitor of a taxgatherer!"
From The King Nobody Wanted by John Lear
No taxgatherer in the British Dominions—that wide-spread territory on which the sun never sets, and where the tax-gatherer never goes to bed—was more regular and persevering in his calls than Mr Toots.
From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
By steadiness in our present course there is no reason why in a few short years the national taxgatherer may not disappear from the door of the citizen almost entirely.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
The trouble with Levi was that he was a taxgatherer.
From The King Nobody Wanted by John Lear
Saint Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a taxgatherer, was called by our Saviour to the Apostleship: in that profession his name is Levi.
From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament by Anonymous
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