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Tax

noun
1.
Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government.  Synonyms: revenue enhancement, taxation.
verb
(past & past part. taxed; pres. part. taxing)
1.
Levy a tax on.  "Clothing is not taxed in our state"
2.
Set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine).  Synonym: assess.
3.
Use to the limit.  Synonym: task.
4.
Make a charge against or accuse.



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"Tax" Quotes from Famous Books



... their chief aim slaves and cattle; whilst, in the second instance, slavery keeps them ever fighting and reducing their numbers. The government revenues are levied, on a very small scale, exclusively for the benefit of the chief and his grey-beards. For instance, as a sort of land-tax, the chief has a right to drink free from the village brews of pombe (a kind of beer made by fermentation), which are made in turn by all the villagers successively. In case of an elephant being killed, he also takes a share of the meat, and claims one of its tusks as his right; ...
— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke
... first two weeks left her. Though Kut-le still fastened her to the saddle by the waist strap and rested her for a short time every hour or so during the night's ride, the hours in the saddle ceased to tax her strength. She was surprised to find that she could eat—eat the ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow
... and get effects. She would know how to depress a rat-terrier with it and make a lap-dog look sorry he came. But that is not the best one; the best one was Laboratory. My mother could organize a Trust on that one that would skin the tax-collars off the whole herd. The laboratory was not a book, or a picture, or a place to wash your hands in, as the college president's dog said—no, that is the lavatory; the laboratory is quite different, ...
— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various
... her strength, and Avery's care now centred more upon Jeanie than her mother. Though the child had recovered from her accident, she had not been really well all the winter, and the cold spring seemed to tax her strength to the uttermost. Tudor still dropped in at intervals, but he said little, and his manner did not encourage Avery to question him. Privately she was growing anxious about Jeanie, and she wished ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... a Tax upon the Body, it is understood to be layd upon every member proportionably to his particular adventure in the Company. For there is in this case no other common stock, but what is ...
— Leviathan • Thomas Hobbes


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