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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tax collector
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the rich will always be better at hiding from the tax collector than the poor.
▪ Of course, the very concept of a popular tax collector is as oxymoronic as jumbo shrimp.
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tax collector

n. One who has the responsibility for collecting taxes.

WordNet
tax collector

n. someone who collects taxes for the government [syn: taxman, exciseman, collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent]

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Tax collector

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A tax collector or a taxman is a person who collects unpaid taxes from other people or corporations. Tax collectors are often portrayed in fiction as being evil, and in the modern world share a similar stereotype to that of lawyers.

Usage examples of "tax collector".

And so with that anonymity that was entirely in keeping with his profession as a Tax Collector, Mr Mirkin, now a mere digit himself, was taken at public expense and registered under Schedule D in the most padded and soundless of cells.

The constable testified that as soon as the tax collector notified him of the delinquencies he personally did his best to collect the three hundred pounds, but had been rebuffed.

By the time we reached the causeway, the tax collector, the wagon, and the troops were gone, carried into the mist that clung even more heavily around the wooden buildings of Freetown.