Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that defies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who defies or dares
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dares and defies; a contemner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws.
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Examples
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NEW TRICKS: The Chicago-style defier Westminster Hot Dog opened last winter in a small storefront on the Loop and got big—fast.
A Looong Way From Coney Island Steve Garbarino 2011
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A meeting was arranged for August 5, and Sam tagged along to see firsthand the notorious defier of federal and biblical authority.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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"Snipes 'long prison sentence should send a loud and crystal clear message to all tax defiers that if they engage in similar tax defier conduct, they face joining him and his co-defendants ... as inmates in prison," said Nathan Hochman, an official at the US Department of Justice Tax Division.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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A meeting was arranged for August 5, and Sam tagged along to see firsthand the notorious defier of federal and biblical authority.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Having the Senate go from supinely emulating the Weimar Reichstag's Enabling Act (with infinitely less excuse than the Germans) to becoming themselves the defier of constitutional constraints.
Senate Dems To Block Burris' Path To Senate -- Perhaps Even Literally 2009
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I should explain what a tax defier is -- people who don't believe in paying income taxes.
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Tax Court judges have imposed fines of as much as $25,000 for making tax-defier arguments.
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Mr. Hochman said the tax division has obtained more than 300 civil injunctions since 2001 against tax promoters and preparers -- and that more than one-third of these "directly involved tax-defier activity."
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"The explosion of the Internet in the last decade has greatly facilitated tax-defier activity and turned what was once a paper-based local or regional enterprise into a click-and-download national operation," said Nathan J. Hochman, assistant attorney general of the J.stice Department's tax division.
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"Snipes' long prison sentence should send a loud and crystal clear message to all tax defiers that if they engage in similar tax defier conduct, they face joining him and his co-defendants ... as inmates in prison," said Nathan Hochman, an official at the US Department of Justice Tax Division.
Snipe Hunt! 2008
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