Word Meanings - TAXATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost. 3. Tax; sum imposed. Daniel. 4. Charge; accusation. Shak. (more info) 1. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members

Additional info about word: TAXATION

The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost. 3. Tax; sum imposed. Daniel. 4. Charge; accusation. Shak. (more info) 1. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• LAYLAND
  Land lying untilled; fallow ground. Blount.
• TAXOR
  See 2
• TAXPAYER
  One who is assessed and pays a tax.
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• LAYING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, lays. 2. The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch. 3. The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• 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
• TAXLESS
  Free from taxation.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• IMPOSTURAGE
  Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• 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.
• TAXABILITY
  The quality or state of being taxable; taxableness.
• 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
• 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.
• CO-ASSESSOR
  A joint assessor.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• POSTAXIAL
  Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.
• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• THERMOTAXIC
  Pertaining to, or connected with, the regulation of temperature in the animal body; as, the thermotaxic nervous system.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.