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Definition of 'tax'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tax
a sum of money levied on incomes, property, sales, etc., by a government for its support or for specific services.

2.  tax
a burdensome charge, obligation, or demand.

3. (v.t.) tax
(of a government)

4.  tax
to impose a tax on (a person or business).

5.  tax
to levy a tax on (income, goods, etc.), usu. in proportion to the value of money involved.

6.  tax
to make serious demands on or of; burden; strain:
to tax one's resources.

7.  tax
to reprove or accuse; censure or charge:
to tax a person with laziness.

8.  tax
Archaic. to estimate or determine the value of.

Etymology: (1250–1300; (v.) ME < L taxāre to handle)

Definition of 'tax'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) tax, taxation, revenue enhancement
charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government

2. (verb) tax
levy a tax on
"The State taxes alcohol heavily"; "Clothing is not taxed in our state"

3. (verb) tax, assess
set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

4. (verb) tax, task
use to the limit
"you are taxing my patience"

5. (verb) tax
make a charge against or accuse
"They taxed him failure to appear in court"

Definition of 'tax'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) tax
an amount of money charged by a government
income/property tax; to lower/raise the tax on fuel; He was arrested for not paying his taxes.

2. (verb) tax
to make sb pay tax
It's unfair that children's clothes are taxed.

3. tax
to be difficult or tiring for sb
ob that doesn't tax him intellectually at all

Definition of 'tax'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) tax
a charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority

2. (noun) tax
a charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government

3. (noun) tax
especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like

4. (noun) tax
a sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses

5. (noun) tax
a task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject

6. (noun) tax
a disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health

7. (noun) tax
charge; censure

8. (noun) tax
a lesson to be learned; a task

9. (noun) tax
to subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government

10. (noun) tax
to assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court

11. (noun) tax
to charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride

Translation of 'tax'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: money, eg a percentage of a person's income or of the price of goods etc taken by the government to help pay for the running of the state income tax; a tax on tobacco.
Afrikaans: belasting	Arabic: ضَريبَه	Bulgarian: данък
Brazilian: imposto	Czech: daň	German: die Steuer
Danish: skat; -skat	Greek: φόρος	Spanish: impuesto
Estonian: maks	Farsi: مالیات	Finnish: vero
French: taxe, impôt	Hebrew: מַס	Hindi: कर
Croatian: porez	Hungarian: adó	Indonesian: pajak
Icelandic: skattur	Italian: imposta, tassa	Japanese: 税金
Korean: 세금	Lithuanian: mokestis, mokesčiai	Latvian: nodoklis
Malay: cukai	Dutch: belasting	Norwegian: skatt, avgift, moms
Polish: podatek	Portuguese: imposto	Romanian: taxă, impozit
Russian: налог	Slovak: daň	Slovenian: davek
Serbian: porez	Swedish: skatt	Thai: ภาษี
Turkish: vergi	Taiwanese: 稅	Ukrainian: податок; мито
Urdu: محصول، ٹيکس	Vietnamese: thuế	Chinese: 税
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