[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tax \tax\, n. f. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, l. taxare to touch,
   sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr.
   tangere, tactum, to touch. see tangent, and cf. task,
   taste.
   1. a charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed
      by authority. specifically: 
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      a a charge or burden laid upon persons or property for
          the support of a government.
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                a farmer of taxes is, of all creditors,
                proverbially the most rapacious.  --macaulay.
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      b especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon
          polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a
          window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.

   note: taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or
         indirect, etc.
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      c a sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society
          to defray its expenses.
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   2. a task exacted from one who is under control; a
      contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed
      upon a subject.
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   3. a disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy
      tax on time or health.
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   4. charge; censure. obs. --clarendon.
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   5. a lesson to be learned; a task. obs. --johnson.
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   tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. eng.
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   syn: impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate;
        assessment; exaction; custom; demand.
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see also:
tangent task taste annual perpetual direct 
indirect tax cart 

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