Definitions for taxes

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taxes tax

Spelling: [taks]

IPA: /tæks/

Taxes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in taxes (aestx).

Definitions for taxes

noun

1. a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
2. a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand.
3. arrangement or order, as in one of the physical sciences.
4. Biology. oriented movement of a motile organism in response to an external stimulus, as toward or away from light.
5. Surgery. the replacing of a displaced part, or the reducing of a hernia or the like, by manipulation without cutting.
6. Architecture. the adaptation to the purposes of a building of its various parts.
7. a plural of taxi.

verb (used with object)

1. to demand a tax from (a person, business, etc.). to demand a tax in consideration of the possession or occurrence of (income, goods, sales, etc.), usually in proportion to the value of money involved.
2. to lay a burden on; make serious demands on:
3. to take to task; censure; reprove; accuse:
4. Informal. to charge:
5. Archaic. to estimate or determine the amount or value of.

verb (used without object)

1. to levy taxes.

Origin of taxes

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English taxen Medieval Latin taxāre to tax, appraise, Latin: to appraise, handle, frequentative of tangere to touch; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.

Examples for taxes

They served the King faithfully as officers in his army and as collectors of his taxes.

There are limits to the painting of banditry and extortion as the legitimate raising of taxes.

The greater part of these taxes, however, do not belong to the King personally.

Scalise spoke about taxes and government slush funds for a mere 15 minutes, Knight said.

It takes a lifetime, Mr. Vavasor, to learn where to pay our taxes.

They are only here to reap the rewards of the American safety net (such as it is) and thereby raise your taxes.

taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but wars raised to carry on taxes.

When she asked Poggiali about the drugs she appeared to be stealing, Poggiali is supposed to have answered, “I pay my taxes.”

And so if two candidates are a wash on matters of civil rights, why not go for the guy who is going to cut your taxes?

To be a receiver of taxes one need not know either Greek or Latin.