Definitions for tariff

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tariff tar·iff

Spelling: [tar-if]

IPA: /ˈtær ɪf/

Tariff is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in tariff (affirt).

Definitions for tariff

noun

1. an official list or table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports or exports.
2. the schedule or system of duties so imposed.
3. any duty or rate of duty in such a list or schedule.
4. any table of charges, as of a railroad, bus line, etc.
5. bill; cost; charge.

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to a tariff.
2. to put a valuation on according to a tariff.

Origin of tariff

1585-95; earlier tariffa Italian Arabic taʿrīfah, derivative of ʿarrafa to make known

Examples for tariff

Everybody knows how the tariff and Labour questions were settled.

They also managed for years to keep a tariff on imports of ethanol, giving the U.S. industry a distinct advantage.

A Pennsylvanian was sure to be right on the tariff, and a Louisianian was sure to be wrong.

Nor have we any reason to hope for a change in the present tariff policy of railroads.

An under-valued Chinese currency bars American products and services as effectually as a tariff barrier.

A matter of most pressing importance is the revision of the tariff.

The attendants are exceedingly civil, and charges regulated by a tariff.

Even after tariff protections were put in place, panels were still relatively cheap to buy.

The tariff of 1828, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which led to the civil war in “Bloody Kansas” and ultimately to the Civil War itself.

The sectional element has happily been eliminated from the tariff discussion.