tax
noun
[ taks ]
• a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.
• "higher taxes will dampen consumer spending"
Similar:
levy,
tariff,
duty,
toll,
excise,
impost,
contribution,
assessment,
tribute,
tithe,
charge,
fee,
liability,
customs,
dues,
cess,
• a strain or heavy demand.
• "a heavy tax on the reader's attention"
Similar:
burden,
load,
weight,
encumbrance,
demand,
strain,
pressure,
stress,
drain,
imposition,
responsibility,
duty,
onus,
obligation,
care,
worry,
tax
verb
• impose a tax on (someone or something).
• "the income will be taxed at the top rate"
Similar:
levy a tax on,
impose a toll on,
charge duty on,
exact a tax on,
demand a tax on,
assess,
charge,
tithe,
mulct,
• make heavy demands on (someone's powers or resources).
• "she knew that the ordeal to come must tax all her strength"
Similar:
strain,
stretch,
put a strain on,
make demands on,
weigh heavily on,
weigh down,
burden,
load,
overload,
encumber,
push,
push too far,
overwhelm,
try,
task,
wear out,
exhaust,
sap,
drain,
empty,
enervate,
fatigue,
tire,
weary,
weaken,
overwork,
• confront (someone) with a fault or wrongdoing.
• "why are you taxing me with these preposterous allegations?"
Similar:
confront,
accuse,
call to account,
charge,
blame,
censure,
condemn,
denounce,
prosecute,
bring charges against,
indict,
arraign,
incriminate,
impeach,
point the finger at,
• examine and assess (the costs of a case).
• "an officer taxing a bill of costs"
Origin:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘estimate or determine the amount of a penalty or damages’, surviving in tax (sense 4 of the verb)): from Old French taxer, from Latin taxare ‘to censure, charge, compute’, perhaps from Greek tassein ‘fix’.
