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taxes

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) Money paid to the government for public purposes. 2 (plural of tax English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: tax) Etymology 2

n. (plural of taxis English)

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tax
  1. n. charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government [syn: taxation, revenue enhancement]

  2. [also: taxes (pl)]

tax
  1. v. levy a tax on; "The State taxes alcohol heavily"; "Clothing is not taxed in our state"

  2. set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine) [syn: assess]

  3. use to the limit; "you are taxing my patience" [syn: task]

  4. make a charge against or accuse; "They taxed him failure to appear in court"

  5. [also: taxes (pl)]

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Usage examples of "taxes".

The only truly high taxes are the surtaxes, and yet they complain and complain.

From time to time, in mention of the pay of men-at-arms, the wages of laborĀ­ers, the price of a horse or a plow, the living expenses of a bourgeois family, the amounts of hearth taxes and sales taxes, I have tried to relate monetary figures to actual values.

The taxes required to raise such an army and maintain it in the field seem to have been lightly considered.

On orders of his father, he made a triumphal progress to exhibit himself to the people whose taxes had bought his return.

The other day you killed a man, kept some guards from being injured, and saved the Guild from being cheated on taxes and tariffs.

Yet we must ensure that Gallos pays its road taxes or soon none will do so.

The confiscated goods were auctioned every eight-day, with the high bidder required to pay the taxes and tariffs-on top of the final bid.

They prefer to complain about those taxes or circumstances that allow them to ask for more coins for their goods, and of those they talk at great length.

There will always be smuggling and smugglers-so long as there are tariffs or taxes, or rules on goods.

But he will not send hordes of his own armsmen to collect our taxes, even though his own people gain vast sums of coin from the White highways.

There are those who sell large amounts of goods to factors in Fairhaven, and those factors pay taxes on the goods.

The last thing the Guild needed was blame for taxes it wasn't getting and that were lining Viscount Rystryr's pockets or strong rooms.

Whoever is duke will have to collect those taxes or face disappearing.

I would like you to use the screeing glass as best you can to see what you can discover about the handling of road taxes and tariffs in Certis.

You only pay one set of taxes, except for the medallion, but they're collected by the viscount's men-Pullid's men, actually.