tax-farmer

This means that his office was appointive, and that he was a tithe - squeezer or tax-farmer.

Chapter 15 2010

The village tax-farmer in turn appoints interpreters (tongshi) and foremen (huozhang) who are sent to live in the villages, and who record and check up on... the barbarians (fan)....

Archive 2008-10-01 Michael Turton 2008

At first Verres had watched and waited for the proscription of the grandson of the notorious Sextus Perquitienus, whose reputation as a connoisseur was quite unparalleled among the knights, and whose collection thanks to his activities as a tax-farmer in Asia was perhaps even better than the collection of Marcus Livius Drusus.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

The Lord's interview with that interesting and earnest tax-farmer in the neighbourhood of Jericho rather constituted an episodical interruption to the continuity of his thought and the narrative of his journey.

The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

As soon as the grain is ripe, the cultivator is compelled to address himself to the tax-farmer for permission to cut his crop; but as the farmer must keep a very sharp look-out after his interest, he only grants such permissions as accord with the arrangements he may have established for watching the cultivators at the smallest possible expense to himself, making the over-ripeness of the crop of the majority a very secondary consideration.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

It was also resolved to abolish all contracts for working the mines of Macedonia, which afforded a considerable revenue, and also all leases of the royal domains; these could not be carried on without the tax-farmer, and wherever the tax-farmer flourished either the law lost its authority or the subjects their liberty.

The History of Rome, Vol. VI 1905

Finally not even the pitiless screws of the tax-farmer could wring blood from the national turnip.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

This means that his office was appointive, and that he was a tithe-squeezer or tax-farmer.

The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

The spirit thus expressed was directly inimical to the interests of the merchant, the contractor and the tax-farmer.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

Take Murazov, the tax-farmer — he, again, must be worth ten millions.

Dead Souls 1842