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betaxed

betaxed adjective: subject to the payment of tax.

Adjective

betaxed (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Subject to the payment of tax.
    • We wear shoes of leather, costly in the skin, expensive in its conversion into leather, and betaxed to a disgusting extent, and yet we have not the manliness to abandon these wasteful and extravagant trappings, and to devise cheap and durable substitutes.1834, The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, page 95

Questions about betaxed

What does betaxed mean?
Betaxed means subject to the payment of tax.
What part of speech is betaxed?
Betaxed is an adjective.

Words near betaxed in the dictionary

  1. betawder
  2. Betawi
  3. Betawis
  4. betaxanthin
  5. betaxanthins
  6. betaxed
  7. betaxolol
  8. betazole
  9. betch
  10. betcha
  11. betcher

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