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death duty

death duty noun: an inheritance tax or estate tax.

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

death duty meaning in Tamil and Kannada

death duty in Tamil

இறப்பு வரி, இறப்புவரி

death duty in Kannada

ಮರಣ ಸುಂಕ, ವಾರಸು ತೆರಿಗೆ

Forms of death duty

pluraldeath duties

Questions about death duty

What does death duty mean?
Death duty means an inheritance tax or estate tax.
What is death duty in Tamil?
Death duty in Tamil is இறப்பு வரி, இறப்புவரி. See Death duty meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is death duty?
Death duty is a noun.
What is the plural of death duty?
The plural of death duty is death duties.

Words near death duty in the dictionary

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

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