tariffs

Noun

tariff (plural tariffs)

1. A system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves.
   • This question may be placed in another light. It is agreed on all sides, that numbers are the best scale of wealth and taxation, as they are the only proper scale of representation. Would the convention have been impartial or consistent, if they had rejected the slaves from the list of inhabitants...1788 February 12, James Madison, “Federalist No. 54”, in New York Packet
2. A schedule of rates, fees or prices.
   • Under a peak/off-peak electricity tariff, you pay a lower rate for the power when demand is less.

   Synonyms:

   plan

3. (UK) A sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime.

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