Tax

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Charge; censure.

II. Tax ·noun A lesson to be learned; a task.

III. Tax ·noun A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.

IV. Tax ·noun A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.

V. Tax ·noun A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.

VI. Tax ·noun A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.

VII. Tax ·noun To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.

VIII. Tax ·noun A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

IX. Tax ·noun 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.

X. Tax ·noun Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, ·etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.

XI. Tax ·noun 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.

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