Word Meanings - TAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, 1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: -- A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.

Additional info about word: TAX

sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, 1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: -- A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious. Macaulay. 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. Note: Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or indirect, etc. A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses. 2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. 3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health. 4. Charge; censure. Clarendon. 5. A lesson to be learned; a task. Johnson. Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. Syn. -- Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TAX)

• Accuse
• Charge
• incriminate
• impeach
• arraign
• tax
• taunt
• censure
• cite
• summon
• criminate
• Impost
• Imposition
• burden
• custom
• toll
• tribute
• excise
• duty
• Tribute
• Tax
• impost
• subsidy
• charge
• customs
• offering
• contribution
• acknowledgment

Related words: (words related to TAX)

• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• CONTRIBUTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• IMPEACH
  To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. Note: When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when
• IMPOSTURAGE
  Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
• CUSTOM
  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without
• IMPOSTOR
  One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
• ARRAIGN
  To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint. Blackstone. 2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal. They will not arraign you for
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• EXCISE
  to cut out or off; ex out, off + caedere to cut; or, as the word was formerly written accise, fr. F. accise, LL. accisia, as if fr. L. accidere, accisum, to cut into; ad + caedere to cut; but prob. transformed fr. OF. assise, LL. assisa, assisia,
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• IMPOSTHUMATION
  1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.
• OFFERTURE
  Offer; proposal; overture. More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• REACCUSE
  To accuse again. Cheyne.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.