maltaxation
/mæltækˈseɪʃən/
maltaxation noun: taxation imposed in an exaggerate, unjust, or unlawful way.
Noun
maltaxation (countable and uncountable, plural maltaxations)
- Taxation imposed in an exaggerate, unjust, or unlawful way.
- It would have been a most tedious if not impossible task for any American tax-payer, I care not how skillful in mathematics or conversan^([sic]) with Federal statutes or expert in custom-house rules and regulations he may have been, to have commenced on the 1st day of January, 1883, with all the...1884, Congressional Record, volume 15, number 4, page 3250, column 1
- It aimed at the abolition of Turkish misrule, oppression and maltaxation, at the ejection of the Turks from the Arabian peninsula, and the formation of a confederation of Arab tribes.1919, Francis Whiting Halsey, The Literary Digest History of the World War, Funk & Wagnalls Company, page 178
Forms of maltaxation
| plural | maltaxations |
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Origin of maltaxation
From mal- + taxation.
Questions about maltaxation
- What does maltaxation mean?
- Maltaxation means taxation imposed in an exaggerate, unjust, or unlawful way.
- What part of speech is maltaxation?
- Maltaxation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce maltaxation?
- Maltaxation is pronounced /mæltækˈseɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of maltaxation?
- The plural of maltaxation is maltaxations.
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