English Explanatory Dictionary

tax

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
  2. A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.
  3. A burdensome demand
verb
  1. To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
  2. To impose and collect a tax on (something).
  3. To make excessive demands on.
  4. To accuse.
  5. To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.

Pronunciation

tăks /tæks/ en-us-tax.ogg

Word forms

tax taxes taxing taxed

Etymology

From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxō (“to appraise, value, estimate; (medieval) to tax”). Doublet of task. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for “tribute” and “rent”.

Synonyms

impost tribute contribution duty toll rate assessment exaction custom demand levy

Antonyms

subsidy

Derived words

ad valorem tax after-tax alignment tax alternative minimum tax antitax Apple tax bedroom tax black tax blood tax blood-tax Cadillac tax capital gains tax carbon tax cat tax certain as death and taxes corporate tax council tax death and taxes death tax deposit interest retention tax detax direct tax indirect tax dog tax double tax agreement dumb tax ecotax fart tax fat tax flat rate tax flatulence tax fortax goods and sales tax Google tax graduate tax granny tax green tax hearth tax hidden tax hut tax hypertax idiot tax income tax return iPod tax Jewish tax kiddie tax kosher tax loyalty tax luxury tax Microsoft tax millage tax mistax mommy tax negative income tax nontax nuisance tax overtax pasty tax payroll tax pink tax

Translations

Amharic: ቀረጠ Armenian: հարկել Bulgarian: облагам Catalan: gravar Chinese Mandarin: 徵稅 /征税 Czech: danit Danish: beskatte Dutch: belasting heffen Esperanto: imposti Finnish: verottaa French: imposer French: taxer German: besteuern Greek: φορολογώ Hindi: उगाही Hungarian: megadóztat Ido: impostar Ido: impostizar Italian: tassare Lao: ກັບພາສີ Māori: tāke Middle English: taxen Norwegian: skattelegge Old English: gafolian Polish: opodatkowywać Polish: opodatkować Portuguese: tributar Portuguese: taxar Serbo-Croatian: oporezívati Slovene: obdavčiti Spanish: asignar impuestos Spanish: cobrar gabelas Spanish: gravar Swedish: beskatta Ukrainian: оподатко́вувати Ukrainian: оподаткува́ти Welsh: trethu
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