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tallage

/ˈtælɪd͡ʒ/

tallage noun: an impost.

Noun

tallage (countable and uncountable, plural tallages)

  1. An impost.
    • ‘For what cess or tallage comes these bandogs to Fitz Peascod Castle?’1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 93
  2. (UK, historical, obsolete) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.
    • The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hidages, scutages, or tallages1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

Verb

tallage (third-person singular simple present tallages, present participle tallaging, simple past and past participle tallaged)

  1. To lay an impost upon.
  2. To cause to pay tallage.

tallage meaning in Bengali

tallage in Bengali

কর, শুল্ক, ব্যারন

Forms of tallage

Noun
pluraltallages
alternative formtaliage
alternative formtalliage
alternative formtailage
alternative formtaillage
Verb
third-person singular presenttallages
present participletallaging
past participletallaged
pasttallaged

Origin of tallage

Inherited from Middle English tallage. From French taillage, from tailler (“to cut”).

Words formed from tallage

Questions about tallage

What does tallage mean?
Tallage means an impost.
What is tallage in Bengali?
Tallage in Bengali is কর, শুল্ক, ব্যারন. See Tallage meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is tallage?
Tallage can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce tallage?
Tallage is pronounced /ˈtælɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of tallage?
The plural of tallage is tallages.

Words near tallage in the dictionary

  1. Talladega
  2. Talladega County
  3. Talladegan
  4. Talladegans
  5. Tallaferro
  6. tallage
  7. tallageabilities
  8. tallageability
  9. tallageable
  10. tallaged
  11. tallages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tallage (page history and authors); tallage (Bengali 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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