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confiscatory

confiscatory adjective: using confiscation.

Adjective

confiscatory (not comparable)

  1. Using confiscation.
    • At some point along the curve of tax rates, the rate changes qualitatively from contributory (the payer is duly pitching in) to confiscatory (the taxer is confiscating); the cutoff value between those categories depends on one's political philosophy.

Questions about confiscatory

What does confiscatory mean?
Confiscatory means using confiscation.
What part of speech is confiscatory?
Confiscatory is an adjective.

Words near confiscatory in the dictionary

  1. confiscating
  2. confiscation
  3. confiscations
  4. confiscator
  5. confiscators
  6. confiscatory
  7. confiseur
  8. confiseurs
  9. confit
  10. confited
  11. confitent

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