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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
taxing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
master
▪ The upshot of the litigation was that the non-litigation costs, together with the litigation costs, were taxed by the taxing master.
▪ And they provide, also, for costs to be taxed by the taxing masters.
▪ A special cadre of judicial officers, the taxing masters, has been established to carry out this process.
▪ The taxing master must, of course, be told on what basis he is to conduct the taxation.
▪ What directions should, in such a case, be given to the taxing master?
officer
▪ However, this is not an approach which all taxing officers would necessarily encourage.
▪ The taxing officer must consider the directions of the court.
▪ If granted, the taxing officer assesses the costs on the same basis as for costs in contentious matters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It is an extremely physically taxing competition.
▪ Later in the pregnancy when the drive to work was getting too taxing, I worked at home two days a week.
▪ The job was taxing, but there were some good moments.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For most of them it will be without doubt the most taxing year they can remember.
▪ On the Home Front, women's tasks were diverse and often physically taxing.
▪ Perhaps the room revived a taxing memory of what had happened.
▪ Some day the theme may find its historian, who will find many taxing questions to answer.
▪ You need a sound night's sleep to prepare you for the taxing journey tomorrow.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taxing

Tax \Tax\ (t[a^]ks), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Taxing.] [Cf. F. taxer. See Tax, n.]

  1. To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.

    We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government.
    --Franklin.

  2. (Law) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.

  3. To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.

    I tax you, you elements, with unkindness.
    --Shak.

    Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
    --Dryden.

    Fear not now that men should tax thine honor.
    --M. Arnold.

Wiktionary
taxing

  1. 1 With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining. 2 Mentally challenging; difficult. n. The act of imposing a tax. v

  2. (present participle of tax English)

WordNet
taxing

adj. not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule" [syn: burdensome, onerous]

Usage examples of "taxing".

The shares represent an aliquot portion of the whole corporate assets, and the property right so represented arises where the corporation has its home, and is therefore within the taxing jurisdiction of the State, notwithstanding that ownership of the stock may also be a taxable subject in another State.

In taxing the income of a nonresident, there is no denial of equal protection in limiting the deduction of losses to those sustained within the State, although residents are permitted to deduct all losses, wherever incurred.

This tax, though collected by the corporation, is on the transfer to a stockholder of his share of corporate dividends within the taxing State, and is deducted from said dividend payments.

If the griddle proved too taxing on my nerves, on top of everything else that was perpetually cooking with me, I might succumb to the lure of the tire life, working not sales but installation.

The Gul Moti only glimpsed the stone-white face of her American, beside the Chief Commissioner, as Neela Deo charged past, on his way to take over the fight that was taxing Gunpat Rao to the last breath before defeat.

And lest anyone should suppose that my time was taken with nothing more taxing than watching and heeding my surroundings, I may assure you, this was the least of it, if not the least important.

Shelby County Taxing District was seriously impaired, for the time being, while a second holding the same year seemed to reduce the significance of the Robbins case itself to that of a reassertion of the elementary rule against discrimination.

He wanted me to understand that his role of archivist was a hugely taxing one.

It may also empower courts of bankruptcy to entertain petitions by taxing agencies or instrumentalities for a composition of their indebtedness where the State has consented to the proceeding and the federal court is not authorized to interfere with the fiscal or governmental affairs of the petitioner.

The light outside was fading by the time he had fixed a macrobiotic dinner, eaten it slowly to avoid taxing his digestive system, drunk two glasses of distilled water, and taken one aspirin from a new package that he inspected for signs of tampering.

A taxing statute does not fail of the prescribed uniformity because its operation and incidence may be affected by differences in State laws.

UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE: It is evident that the old method of taxing forest property, as well as other property, at its supposedly full value will, as the value of timber increases and is recognized, put a premium on premature and reckless cutting, and will hinder any effort to reforest cut-over lands.

In a typical case the Court held that oil shipped from Pennsylvania and held in tanks in Memphis, Tennessee for separation, distribution and reshipment, was subject to the taxing power of the latter State.

They merely continue to operate capitalism for their own benefit by constantly raising wages, creating a huge army of bureaucrats and taxing the upper classes out of existence.

State from another State are subject to a nondiscriminatory exercise of its taxing power.