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tax

See also: tax- and тах

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa. Doublet of task. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for "tribute" and "rent."

Noun

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tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)

  1. Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
    Synonyms: impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand, levy
    Antonym: subsidy
    • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
      In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
  2. (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand.
    a heavy tax on time or health
    • 1843, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons - Volume 39, page 234:
      In the expectation that such would be the case, I came but slightly attended, sending most of my people with the heavy baggage by sea to the Indus, and I took every precaution to render the tax of my support as light as possible, by furnishing a memorandum of the number of persons composing my suite, and limiting the amount of supplies each should receive.
    • 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 128:
      The extent of the traffic is a tax on the existing yard in the area at Frodingham, the busiest in the District.
  3. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
  4. (obsolete) charge; censure
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types of taxes
Coordinate terms
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other government revenues
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Descendants
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  • → Tok Pisin: takis
    • → Rotokas: takisi
  • → Hindi: टैक्स (ṭaiks)
  • → Urdu: ٹَیکْس (ṭaiks)
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre, present active infinitive of taxō (“I handle”, “I censure”, “I appraise”, “I compute”).

Verb

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tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)

  1. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
    Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
    • 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 251:
      Taxing the food and chemical industries, which make billions off our food consumption, could be another way to generate revenue for the program.
  2. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
    Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
  4. (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
    Do not tax my patience.
    • 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
      The people of the southeasterly clusters—concerning whom, however, but little is known—have a bad name as cannibals; and for that reason their hospitality is seldom taxed by the mariner.
    • 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 103:
      The heavy freight traffic which shares the double line between Paddington and Wolverhampton with the passenger traffic has taxed the ingenuity of the timetable planners.
    • 2007 January 16, “IBM - Reinventing the invention system - United States”, in IDEAS from IBM‎[2]:
      But patent applications are increasingly accompanied by volumes and volumes of data on DVD, which taxes the resources of the patent office.
  5. (transitive) To accuse.
  6. (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
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Latin

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Interjection

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tax

  1. an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack
    • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)

References

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  • “tax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “tax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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tax

  1. Alternative form of taxe

Etymology 2

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tax

  1. Alternative form of taxen

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Armenian թաղ (tʻaġ).

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tax f (Arabic spelling تاخ)

  1. district, neighborhood, quarter
  2. district, region

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “թաղ (1)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 143b
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “tax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎[3], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 598
  • Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) “تاغ”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 92b

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Noun

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tax c

  1. a dachshund (dog breed)

Declension

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Declension of tax
nominative genitive
singular indefinite tax tax
definite taxen taxens
plural indefinite taxar taxars
definite taxarna taxarnas

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