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ad valorem

ad valorem adverb: measured by or in proportion to value.

Adverb

ad valorem (not comparable)

  1. Measured by or in proportion to value.
    • "'I forgot to tell you, boys,' says he, 'that Nicaragua slapped an import duty of 48 per cent. ad valorem on all bottled goods last month.c. 1900, O. Henry, The Lost Blend
    • […]the medical attaché is known among the shrinking upper classes of petro-Arab nations as the DeBakey of maxillofacial yeast, his staggering fee-scale as wholly ad valorem.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 33

Noun

ad valorem (plural ad valorems)

  1. A tax that is levied based on value.
    • It would have been a most tedious if not impossible task for any American tax-payer, I care not how skillful in mathematics or conversan^([sic]) with Federal statutes or expert in custom-house rules and regulations he may have been, to have commenced on the 1st day of January, 1883, with all the...1884, Congressional Record, volume 15, number 4, page 3250, column 1

ad valorem meaning in Tamil

ad valorem in Tamil

மதிப்பீட்டின்படி, விலை பெறுமானப்படி, விலை மதிப்பிட்டிற்குத் தக, பெறுமானம்

Forms of ad valorem

pluralad valorems

Origin of ad valorem

Borrowed from Latin ad valorem (“by value”).

Words formed from ad valorem

Questions about ad valorem

What does ad valorem mean?
Ad valorem means measured by or in proportion to value.
What is ad valorem in Tamil?
Ad valorem in Tamil is மதிப்பீட்டின்படி, விலை பெறுமானப்படி, விலை மதிப்பிட்டிற்குத் தக. See Ad valorem meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ad valorem?
Ad valorem can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near ad valorem in the dictionary

  1. ad referendum
  2. ad rem
  3. ad seriatum
  4. ad truck
  5. ad trucks
  6. ad valorem
  7. ad valorem tax
  8. ad valorem taxes
  9. ad valorems
  10. ad verbum
  11. ad verecundiam

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