Tax

Quick meaning: Tax is a noun meaning (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand.

Meaning

(figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
2. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
3. (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
4. (transitive) To accuse.
5. (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
6. A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.
7. Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).

Example Sentences

a heavy tax on time or health

Flie far from hence All private taxes, immodest phrases, What e'r may but shew like vicious.

The extent of the traffic is a tax on the existing yard in the area at Frodingham, the busiest in the District.

[They paid a] "mushroom tax" in addition to their regular tax of butter and meat. They had to give 1 dre of dried mushrooms annually to the district administrative centres.

Word Forms

• taxes
• taxing
• taxed

Synonyms for tax

Depending on context, synonyms include impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate.

Antonyms for tax

Common opposites include subsidy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include taxation, assess, task, excise, impost, tariff.

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