tax

Meanings

Noun

• Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
• A burdensome demand.
• A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
• charge; censure

Verb

• To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
• To impose and collect a tax on (something).
• To make excessive demands on.
• To accuse.
• To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• church tax
• corporation tax
• duty
• estate tax
• excise, excise tax
• flat tax
• gift tax
• goods and services tax
• gross receipts tax
• head tax
• income tax
• inheritance tax
• land tax
• poll tax
• property tax
• personal property tax
• real property tax
• sales tax
• sin tax
• sumptuary tax
• transfer tax
• use tax
• utilities tax
• value added tax

Origin

• From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa.
• From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer ("to impose a tax"), from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō.