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death tax

death tax noun: inheritance tax.

Noun

death tax (plural death taxes)

  1. (US, derogatory) Inheritance tax.
    • Spurred by [Frank] Luntz, Republicans have employed the term “death tax” so aggressively that it has entered the popular lexicon.[2001 December 19, Joshua Green, “Meet Mr. Death”, in The American Prospect, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2026

death tax meaning in Tamil

death tax in Tamil

இறப்பு வரி

Forms of death tax

pluraldeath taxes

Origin of death tax

Popularized by American political consultant, author, and pollster Frank Luntz.

Questions about death tax

What does death tax mean?
Death tax means inheritance tax.
What is death tax in Tamil?
Death tax in Tamil is இறப்பு வரி. See Death tax meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is death tax?
Death tax is a noun.
What is the plural of death tax?
The plural of death tax is death taxes.

Words near death tax in the dictionary

  1. death stare
  2. death stares
  3. death stars
  4. death stick
  5. death sticks
  6. death tax
  7. death taxes
  8. death threat
  9. death threats
  10. death throe
  11. death throes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: death tax (page history and authors); death tax (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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