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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or practice of imposing taxes.
  2. n. The fact of being taxed.
  3. n. An assessed amount of tax.
  4. n. Revenue gained from taxes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes on the subjects or citizens of a state or government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue required for public service by means of taxes; the system by which such a revenue is raised.
  2. n. Tax or assessment imposed; the aggregate of particular taxes.
  3. n. Charge; accusation; censure; scandal.
  4. n. The act of taxing or assessing a bill of costs in law.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed
  2. n. A particular system of taxing people or companies
  3. n. The revenue gained from taxes

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.
  2. n. (Law) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.
  3. n. rare Tax; sum imposed.
  4. n. obsolete Charge; accusation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
  2. n. government income due to taxation
  3. n. the imposition of taxes; the practice of the government in levying taxes on the subjects of a state

Etymologies

  1. From Latin taxātĭo ("rating, appraisal") (Wiktionary)

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