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tax
1[ taks ]
noun
- a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
- a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand.
verb (used with object)
- (of a government)
- to demand a tax from (a person, business, etc.).
- to demand a tax in consideration of the possession or occurrence of (income, goods, sales, etc.), usually in proportion to the value of money involved.
- to lay a burden on; make serious demands on:
to tax one's resources.
- to take to task; censure; reprove; accuse:
to tax one with laziness.
- Informal. to charge:
What did he tax you for that?
- Archaic. to estimate or determine the amount or value of.
verb (used without object)
- to levy taxes.
tax-
2- variant of taxo- before a vowel:
taxeme.
tax
/ tæks /
noun
- a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services, etc
- a heavy demand on something; strain
a tax on our resources
verb
- to levy a tax on (persons, companies, etc, or their incomes, etc)
- to make heavy demands on; strain
to tax one's intellect
- to accuse, charge, or blame
he was taxed with the crime
- to determine (the amount legally chargeable or allowable to a party to a legal action), as by examining the solicitor's bill of costs
to tax costs
- slang.to steal
Derived Forms
- ˈtaxless, adjective
- ˈtaxer, noun
Other Words From
- taxer noun
- taxing·ly adverb
- taxless adjective
- taxless·ly adverb
- taxless·ness noun
- anti·tax adjective
- non·tax noun adjective
- non·taxer noun
- pro·tax adjective
- re·tax verb (used with object)
- self-taxed adjective
- sub·taxer noun
- under·taxed adjective
- un·tax verb (used with object)
- well-taxed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of tax1
Word History and Origins
Origin of tax1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with tax , also see death and taxes .Example Sentences
For example, since 2009 it’s been working on a campaign for tax incentives for carbon capture and storage.
Which is why Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and others have been calling for raising much more tax money, but primarily from the very wealthy.
In March, Measure C got 65 percent of the vote, just shy of the two-thirds needed to approve a tax for a specific purpose.
They could support citizens more efficiently, quickly, and flexibly than current approaches like check payments or tax relief.
The head of an organization representing such workers blasted the decision as a “scam that leaves workers with a substantial tax bill right after the holiday season,” according to the Washington Post.
Have you tried to access the research that your tax dollars finance, almost all of which is kept behind a paywall?
His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
Cocaine busts, tax cheats, and bribe-taking, born-again Christians: Welcome to the political scandals of 2014.
In response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.
Tax evasion carries a maximum penalty of five years, and thus it seems likely that Grimm would be covered by the provision.
The law went into operation in England imposing a tax on wearing hair powder.
In former years, Korea had paid an annual tribute or tax to China, but for some time it had been held back by this king.
Mr. Jackson supposed that Parliament had a right to tax America, but he much doubted the expediency of the present act.
In tax-paying circles it is said that the fashionable thing will be to start now and let the airship overtake you if it can.
The stamps, in remote districts, would frequently require more in postage to obtain than the value of the tax.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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