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A tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person
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capitation
Word definitions for capitation in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE weighted ▪ The hon. Gentleman particularly asked about weighted capitation . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A monthly capitation fee is paid to profit making companies. ▪ As no formula for capitation funding had been developed ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "counting of heads," from Late Latin capitationem (nominative capitatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of a verb derived from caput "head" (see capitulum ). Meaning "levying of a poll tax" is from 1640s.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Capitation may refer to: Tax per head , poll tax, or head tax, a tax of a fixed amount per individual Capitation (healthcare) , a system of payment to medical service providers Capitation fee , a fee or payment of a uniform amount charged per person
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
capitation \cap`i*ta"tion\ (k[a^]p`[i^]*t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. capitatio a poll tax, fr. caput head; cf. F. capitation.] A numbering of heads or individuals. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Performing a headcount; the counting of people. 2 A poll tax. 3 A system of remuneration for providers of health care, in which providers enroll patients as permanent clients and receive a fixed periodic payment for each enrollee.
Usage examples of capitation.
In the sixth year of his reign, Constantine visited the city of Autun, and generously remitted the arrears of tribute, reducing at the same time the proportion of their assessment from twenty-five to eighteen thousand heads, subject to the real and personal capitation.
In the management of the revenue, he disapproved the simple but oppressive mode of a capitation, and preferred with reason a proportion of taxes deducted on every branch from the clear profits of agriculture and commerce.
In the management of the revenue, he disapproved the simple but oppressive mode of a capitation, and preferred with reason a proportion of taxes deducted on every branch from the clear profits of agriculture and commerce.
In the time of Constantine, the territory of the Aedui afforded no more than twenty-five thousand heads of capitation, of whom seven thousand were discharged by that prince from the intolerable weight of tribute.
But the indications, the capitations, and other imposts raised at the time of the emperors on the persons or goods of freemen had been changed into an obligation of defending the frontiers, and marching against the enemy.
It says that the deal was consummated when the hospital board, under the leadership of Harold Traynor, finally agreed to CMV's demand to provide hospitalization for an unspecified monthly capitation fee, a method of cost control encouraged by the government and favored by HMO organizations.
The difficulty of allowing an annual sum of about nine pounds sterling, even for the average of the capitation of Gaul, may be rendered more evident by the comparison of the present state of the same country, as it is now governed by the absolute monarch of an industrious, wealthy, and affectionate people.