tax | Lernwerd

Forms

1.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.
2.A burdensome demand
- The extent of the traffic is a tax on the existing yard in the area at Frodingham, the busiest in the District.
3.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).

1.To make excessive demands on.
- But patent applications are increasingly accompanied by volumes and volumes of data on DVD, which taxes the resources of the patent office.
- Do not tax my patience.
- The heavy freight traffic which shares the double line between Paddington and Wolverhampton with the passenger traffic has taxed the ingenuity of the timetable planners.
2.To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
3.To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
- Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
- Taxing the food and chemical industries, which make billions off our food consumption, could be another way to generate revenue for the program.
4.To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.

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From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxō (“to appraise, value, estimate; (medieval) to tax”).

Doublet of task.

Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for “tribute” and “rent”.