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| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : taks |
| Phonetic Transcription : tæks |
Definition of taxes
Origin :- early 14c., "obligatory contribution levied by a sovereign or government," from Anglo-French tax, Old French taxe, and directly from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxare (see tax (v.)). Related: taxes. Tax shelter is attested from 1961.
- noun charge levied by government on property, income
- noun burden
- verb levy charge on property, income
- verb burden
- verb accuse
- The greater part of these taxes, however, do not belong to the King personally.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- They served the King faithfully as officers in his army and as collectors of his taxes.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- It takes a lifetime, Mr. Vavasor, to learn where to pay our taxes.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but wars raised to carry on taxes.
- Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
- To be a receiver of taxes one need not know either Greek or Latin.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- The death of the receiver of taxes had satiated the soldiers.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- You don't have to pay rates and taxes, and a hundred other things that they do.
- Extract from : « Strife (First Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
- In the first place it was fairly cheap-forty pounds, or fifty with taxes.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- He wanted to know if we'd got this year's taxes on the Whittaker place.
- Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Too well they knew that the tyrant had done nothing for his subjects but take their taxes.
- Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
Synonyms for taxes
- albatross
- arraign
- assess
- assessment
- bite
- blame
- brokerage
- capitation
- censure
- charge
- charge duty
- contribution
- cost
- criminate
- cumber
- custom
- deadweight
- demand
- demand toll
- difficulty
- drain
- dues
- duty
- enact
- encumber
- enervate
- exact
- exact tribute
- excise
- exhaust
- expense
- extract
- fine
- giveaway
- impeach
- impose
- imposition
- impost
- impugn
- impute
- incriminate
- inculpate
- indict
- lade
- lay an impost
- levy
- load
- make demands on
- millstone
- obligation
- onus
- oppress
- overburden
- overtax
- overuse
- overwork
- pork barrel
- press hard on
- pressure
- prey on
- price
- push
- put pressure on
- rate
- reproach
- reprove
- require contribution
- saddle
- salvage
- sap
- strain
- stress
- stretch
- tariff
- task
- tire
- tithe
- toll
- towage
- tribute
- try
- weaken
- wear out
- weary
- weigh
- weigh down
- weigh heavily on
- weight
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