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ad valorems

ad valorems is the plural of ad valorem.

Meaning of ad valorem

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

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Questions about ad valorems

What is ad valorems the plural of?
Ad valorems is the plural of ad valorem.

Words near ad valorems in the dictionary

  1. ad truck
  2. ad trucks
  3. ad valorem
  4. ad valorem tax
  5. ad valorem taxes
  6. ad valorems
  7. ad verbum
  8. ad verecundiam
  9. ad verecundiams
  10. ad vitam aut culpam
  11. ad vivum

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