tax
noun
a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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"By ten o'clock, they will have taxed a pretty bill of costs between them!"
From Home as Found by Cooper, James Fenimore