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death duties

death duties is the plural of death duty.

Meaning of death duty

Noun

death duty (countable and uncountable, plural death duties)

  1. An inheritance tax or estate tax.
    • Hardly a working day passes but we are asked if we can help the proprietors of a private company to dispose part of their holdings so as to prepare for or to pay death duties.2008, Wolfgang Schön, editor, Tax and Corporate Governance, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 133

Questions about death duties

What is death duties the plural of?
Death duties is the plural of death duty.

Words near death duties in the dictionary

  1. death diving
  2. death door
  3. death doors
  4. death drive
  5. death drives
  6. death duties
  7. death duty
  8. Death Eater
  9. Death Eaters
  10. death erection
  11. death erections

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