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Word: Tax
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English (also in the sense ‘estimate or determine the amount of a penalty or damages’, surviving in tax (sense 4 of the verb)): from Old French taxer, from Latin taxare ‘to censure, charge, compute’, perhaps from Greek tassein ‘fix’
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a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions
Short Definition:compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by government on workers' income and business profits
Examples:- higher taxes will dampen consumer spending
- a tax on fuel
- they will have to pay tax on interest earned by savings
- a tax bill
- tax cuts
a strain or heavy demand
Short Definition:strain or heavy demand
Examples:- a heavy tax on the reader's attention
Word: Tax
Speech Type: Verb
taks
impose a tax on (someone or something)
Short Definition:impose tax on
Examples:- the income will be taxed at the top rate
make heavy demands on (someone's powers or resources)
Short Definition:make heavy demands on
Examples:- she knew that the ordeal to come must tax all her strength
confront (someone) with a fault or wrongdoing
Short Definition:confront someone with fault or wrongdoing
Examples:- why are you taxing me with these preposterous allegations?
examine and assess (the costs of a case)
Short Definition:examine and assess
Examples:- an officer taxing a bill of costs
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