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exciseman

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exciseman [ˈɛksaɪzˌmæn]
n pl -men
(Business / Professions) Brit (formerly) a government agent whose function was to collect excise and prevent smuggling
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Noun1.excisemanexciseman - someone who collects taxes for the government
collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent, tax collector, taxman
administrative official, bureaucrat - an official of a bureaucracy


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Says I to the exciseman, says I, I think you oft to favour us; I am sure we are very good friends to the government: and so we are for sartain, for we pay a mint of money to 'um.
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Micawber and myself had once the honour of uniting our voices to yours, in the well-known strain of the Immortal exciseman nurtured beyond the Tweed.
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With this little boy, the only pledge of her departed exciseman, Mrs.
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