1. (n.)excise an internal tax or duty on certain commodities, as liquor or tobacco, levied on their manufacture, sale, or consumption within the country.
2. excise a fee imposed for a license to pursue certain sports, occupations, etc.
Etymology: (1570–80; < L excīsus, ptp. of excīdere=ex-ex-1+-cīdere, comb. form of caedere to cut)
Definition of 'Excise'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)excise, excise tax a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
2. (verb)strike, scratch, expunge, excise remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"
4. (verb)excise remove by cutting "The surgeon excised the tumor"
Definition of 'Excise'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Excise in inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system
2. (noun)Excise that department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes