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taxpay

taxpay verb: to pay tax upon.

Verb

taxpay (third-person singular simple present taxpays, present participle taxpaying, simple past and past participle taxpaid)

  1. (transitive) To pay tax upon.
    • If he chooses not to bottle in bond, he taxpays the spirits in bulk at 100° proof and then, after taxpayment, reduces the product with water to any proof down to 80° (usually between 86° and 80°).1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Excise Tax Technical and Administrative Problems
    • […] affix to each package one or more internal-revenue stamps of the proper class and denomination as will fully taxpay the contents of such package, unless such stamp or stamps shall have been affixed abroad […]1957, United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Treasury Decisions Under the Customs, Internal Revenue, Industrial Alcohol, Narcotic And Other Laws

Forms of taxpay

third-person singular presenttaxpays
present participletaxpaying
past participletaxpaid
pasttaxpaid

Origin of taxpay

Back-formation from taxpayer or taxpaying.

Questions about taxpay

What does taxpay mean?
Taxpay means to pay tax upon.
What part of speech is taxpay?
Taxpay is a verb.
What is the past tense of taxpay?
The past tense of taxpay is taxpaid.

Words near taxpay in the dictionary

  1. taxophobic
  2. taxor
  3. taxors
  4. taxotere
  5. taxpaid
  6. taxpay
  7. taxpayer
  8. taxpayers
  9. taxpaying
  10. taxpayment
  11. taxpays

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