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blood-tax

blood-tax is the alternative spelling of blood tax.

Meaning of blood tax

Noun

blood tax (plural blood taxes)

  1. A tax paid by bloodshed; especially, a derogatory term for military conscription.
    • "France is the mother of Conscription. What has she gained by that blood-tax?"

Forms of blood-tax

pluralblood-taxes

Questions about blood-tax

What is blood-tax the alternative spelling of?
Blood-tax is the alternative spelling of blood tax.

Words near blood-tax in the dictionary

  1. blood-stained cockatoo
  2. blood-stained cockatoos
  3. blood-sucker
  4. blood-suckers
  5. blood-sucking
  6. blood-tax
  7. blood-taxes
  8. blood-test
  9. blood-tested
  10. blood-testing
  11. blood-tests

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blood-tax (page history and authors); blood tax (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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