tax
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Is tax a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand;Examples: "a heavy tax on time or health"; "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."; "The extent of the traffic is a tax on the existing yard in the area at Frodingham, the busiest in the District."figurativelyuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).Examples: "Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest."; "Taxing the food and chemical industries, which make billions off our food consumption, could be another way to generate revenue for the program."transitive
2. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).Examples: "Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector."transitive
3. (transitive) To make excessive demands on.Examples: "Do not tax my patience."; "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."; "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."transitive
4. (transitive) To accuse.transitive
5. (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary