Contents |
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“‘to impose a tax’”), from Latin taxare (“‘to handle", "censure", "appraise", "compute’”)
Pronunciation
Noun
|
Singular tax |
Plural countable and uncountable; plural taxes |
tax (countable and uncountable; plural taxes)
- (government) Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
Hyponyms
types of taxes
|
|
Coordinate terms
other government revenues
|
|
Derived terms
terms derived from tax (noun)
|
Verb
|
Infinitive to tax |
Third person singular taxes |
Simple past taxed |
Past participle taxed |
Present participle taxing |
to tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)
- (transitive, government) To impose and collect a tax from.
- (transitive) To use to the limit
- Do not tax my patience.
- 2007 January 16, IBM, “IBM - Reinventing the invention system - United States”, IDEAS from IBM:
- But patent applications are increasingly accompanied by volumes and volumes of data on DVD, which taxes the resources of the patent office.
Derived terms
Translations
to impose and collect a tax
|
|
Latin
Alternative spellings
- Also spelled tux tax.
Noun
tax
- an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack
|
Seattle Times
Most tax -return preparers are professional and honest and provide excellent service to their clients. However, unscrupulous tax -return preparers do exist ...
Your tax return: Don't let guard down Minneapolis Star Tribune
Why Can't the IRS Help Fill in the Blanks? New York Times
Ken King column: Taking the stress out of tax time Sheboygan Press
Arizona Republic - Lake Wales News - Seacoastonline.com
all 93 news articles »
528px x 945px | 81.30kB
[source page]
Your Selected Photograph Axe The Tax Local Government Association s Council Tax Revaluation Briefing to PPCs Cllrs at Bristol Council House College Green Taken on Tuesday 15th March 2005
