tax

See also: tax- and тах

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of EnglishCategory:Translingual terms derived from English#TAX TamkiCategory:Translingual clippings#TAX with x as a placeholder.

Symbol

taxCategory:Translingual lemmas#TAXCategory:Translingual symbols#TAXCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#TAXCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#TAXCategory:Pages with entries#TAXCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TAX

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3Category:ISO 639-3 language code for Tamki.

See also

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#TAXCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *teh₂g- (touch)#TAX

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#TAXCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#TAX taxe, from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#TAX taxe, from Medieval LatinCategory:English terms derived from Medieval Latin#TAX taxa, from Latin taxō (“to appraise, value, estimate; (medieval) to tax”). Doublet of taskCategory:English doublets#TAX. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for “tribute” and “rent”.

Noun

tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)Category:English lemmas#TAXCategory:English nouns#TAXCategory:English uncountable nouns#TAXCategory:English countable nouns#TAXCategory:English countable nouns#TAXCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TAXCategory:Pages with entries#TAXCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TAX

  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).
    Synonyms: impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand, levy
    Antonym: subsidy
    • 2008, Kunzang Choden, Chilli and Cheese: Food and Society in Bhutan, page 147:
      [They paid a] "mushroom tax" in addition to their regular tax of butter and meat. They had to give 1 dre of dried mushrooms annually to the district administrative centres.
      Category:English terms with quotations#TAX
    • 2010 December 6, Madison Smartt Bell, Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries), W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 5:
      The [General Farm] organization collected a tax on salt (gabelle) and another on alcohol and tobacco (aide), along with customs duties (traites) and duties on goods entering Paris from elsewhere in France (entrées). Evasion of all of these taxes through smugglign and other fraud was epidemic […]
      Category:English terms with quotations#TAX
    • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
      In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
      Category:English terms with quotations#TAX
  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. (figurative, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#TAX) A burdensome demand
    • 1843, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons - Volume 39, page 234:
      In the expectation that such would be the case, I came but slightly attended, sending most of my people with the heavy baggage by sea to the Indus, and I took every precaution to render the tax of my support as light as possible, by furnishing a memorandum of the number of persons composing my suite, and limiting the amount of supplies each should receive.
      Category:English terms with quotations#TAX
    • 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 128:
      The extent of the traffic is a tax on the existing yard in the area at Frodingham, the busiest in the District.
      Category:English terms with quotations#TAX
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Etymology 2

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#TAXCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#TAX taxen, from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#TAX taxer (“to impose a tax”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#TAX taxāre (“to handle, to censure, to appraise, to compute”).

Verb

tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed)Category:English lemmas#TAXCategory:English verbs#TAXCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TAXCategory:Pages with entries#TAXCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TAX

  1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TAX) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
    Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.Category:English terms with usage examples#TAX
    • 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 251:
      Taxing the food and chemical industries, which make billions off our food consumption, could be another way to generate revenue for the program.
      Category:English terms with quotations#TAX
  2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TAX) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
    Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.Category:English terms with usage examples#TAX
  4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TAX) To make excessive demands on.
    Do not tax my patience.
    Category:English terms with usage examples#TAX
  5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TAX) To accuse.
  6. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TAX) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
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Category:en:Taxation#TAX

Latin

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Interjection

taxCategory:Latin lemmas#TAXCategory:Latin interjections#TAXCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#TAXCategory:Pages with entries#TAXCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TAX

  1. an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack

References

  • “tax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “tax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Category:Latin onomatopoeias#TAX

Lower Tanana

Stem

taxCategory:Lower Tanana lemmas#TAXCategory:Lower Tanana stems#TAXCategory:Lower Tanana entries with incorrect language header#TAXCategory:Pages with entries#TAXCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TAX

  1. Verbal stem occurring in the following root, aspect, and mode combinations:
Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
Persistive ta (classify animate) ta (classify animate) ta (classify animate) ta (classify animate)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

taxCategory:Middle English lemmas#TAXCategory:Middle English nouns#TAXCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#TAXCategory:Pages with entries#TAXCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TAX

  1. alternative form of taxe

Etymology 2

Verb

taxCategory:Middle English lemmas#TAXCategory:Middle English verbs#TAXCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#TAXCategory:Pages with entries#TAXCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TAX

  1. alternative form of taxen

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from ArmenianCategory:Northern Kurdish terms borrowed from Armenian#TAXCategory:Northern Kurdish terms derived from Armenian#TAX թաղ (tʻaġ).

Pronunciation

Noun

tax f (Arabic spelling تاخ)Category:Northern Kurdish lemmas#TAXCategory:Northern Kurdish nouns#TAXCategory:Northern Kurdish entries with incorrect language header#TAXCategory:Northern Kurdish feminine nouns#TAXCategory:Pages with entries#TAXCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TAX

  1. district, neighborhood, quarter
  2. district, region

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973), “թաղ (1)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 143b
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “tax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 598
  • Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879), “تاغ”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 92b

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv
en tax

Etymology

Borrowed from GermanCategory:Swedish terms borrowed from German#TAXCategory:Swedish terms derived from German#TAX Dachs(hund). First attested in 1825.

Pronunciation

Noun

tax cCategory:Swedish lemmas#TAXCategory:Swedish nouns#TAXCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#TAXCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#TAXCategory:Pages with entries#TAXCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TAX

  1. a dachshund (dog breed)
    Taxar har långsträckt kropp och korta ben
    Dachshunds have elongated bodies ["body" – an article could also be included in Swedish] and short legs
    Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#TAX

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with Zazaki translations Category:Translingual clippings Category:Translingual lemmas Category:Translingual symbols Category:Translingual terms derived from English Category:Translingual terms with redundant script codes Category:en:Taxation