taxes

Noun

tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)

1. Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
   • [They paid a] "mushroom tax" in addition to their regular tax of butter and meat. They had to give 1 dre of dried mushrooms annually to the district administrative centres.2008, Kunzang Choden, Chilli and Cheese: Food and Society in Bhutan, page 147

   Synonyms:

   impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand

   Antonyms:

   subsidy

2. A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.
   • Flie far from hence
     All private taxes, immodest phrases,
     What e'r may but shew like vicious.1616–1618, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Queene of Corinth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647...
3. (figuratively, uncountable) A burdensome demand
   • a heavy tax on time or health

See all 8 meanings of tax

Noun

taxis (countable and uncountable, plural taxes)

1. The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
2. The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after dislocation or fracture.

   Synonyms:

   reduction

3. (rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
4. arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar
5. (historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.