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tax  (tks)
n.
1. A contribution for the support of a government required of persons, groups, or businesses within the domain of that government.
2. A fee or dues levied on the members of an organization to meet its expenses.
3. A burdensome or excessive demand; a strain.
tr.v. taxed, tax·ing, tax·es
1. To place a tax on (income, property, or goods).
2. To exact a tax from.
3. Law To assess (court costs, for example).
4. To make difficult or excessive demands upon: a boss who taxed everyone's patience.
5. To make a charge against; accuse: He was taxed with failure to appear on the day appointed.

[Middle English, from taxen, to tax, from Old French taxer, from Medieval Latin taxre, from Latin, to touch, reproach, reckon, frequentative of tangere, to touch; see tag- in Indo-European roots.]

taxer n.

tax [tæks]
n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services, etc.
2. a heavy demand on something; strain a tax on our resources
vb (tr)
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) to levy a tax on (persons, companies, etc., or their incomes, etc.)
2. to make heavy demands on; strain to tax one's intellect
3. to accuse, charge, or blame he was taxed with the crime
4. (Law) to determine (the amount legally chargeable or allowable to a party to a legal action), as by examining the solicitor's bill of costs to tax costs
5. Brit informal to steal
[from Old French taxer, from Latin taxāre to appraise, from tangere to touch]
taxer  n
taxless  adj

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