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poll tax

poll tax noun: a tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual.

poll tax: a tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual
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Noun

poll tax (plural poll taxes)

  1. A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual.
  2. (US) A tax that must be paid in order to vote.

poll tax meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Vietnamese

poll tax in Tamil

uniform tax per individual
தலைவரி talaivari, ஆள்வரி āḷvari

poll tax in Kannada

ತಲೆಗಂದಾಯ

poll tax in Vietnamese

uniform tax per individual
sưu

Synonyms of poll tax

Forms of poll tax

pluralpoll taxes
alternative formpoll-tax

Origin of poll tax

From sense poll (“head”) for “uniform tax per individual”; from sense poll (“voting place”) for “tax required to vote”.

Questions about poll tax

What does poll tax mean?
Poll tax means a tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual.
What is poll tax in Tamil?
Poll tax in Tamil is தலைவரி (talaivari), ஆள்வரி (āḷvari). See Poll tax meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is poll tax?
Poll tax is a noun.
What is the plural of poll tax?
The plural of poll tax is poll taxes.

Words near poll tax in the dictionary

  1. poll evils
  2. poll parrot
  3. poll parroted
  4. poll parroting
  5. poll parrots
  6. poll tax
  7. poll taxes
  8. poll worker
  9. poll workers
  10. poll-tax
  11. poll-taxes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: poll tax (page history and authors); poll tax (Kannada 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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