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‖ octroi|ɔktrwa, ˈɒktrɔɪ|
Also 7–8 octroy, 8 octroit.
[F. octroi, from octroyer: see next.]
†1. A concession, a grant; a privilege granted by a government, esp. a commercial privilege, as an exclusive right of trade. Obs.
1614W. Colwall in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 151 Those merchants..much importune the Lords for octroy to make a company. He answered me, that they purposed..not as yet to grant any octroy. 1721Lond. Gaz. No. 5920/1 They may obtain an Octroy or Grant for 15 Years.
2. A duty or tax levied on certain articles on their admission into a town (esp. in France and other European countries).
1714French Bk. of Rates 25 Duties called the Octroits, in the City of Roan, upon Sugar, Wax, and Tobacco. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. v. v. §4 (1876) 520 An octroi cannot produce a large revenue, without pressing severely upon the labouring classes of the towns. 1877C. Geikie Christ (1879) 196 The octroi at the gates of towns.
b. The barrier or limit at which the tax is paid; also, the service by which, or body of officers by whom, it is collected.
1861Neale Notes Dalmatia iii. 41 At the octroi our driver gave out his destination. 1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-cap i. 364 This is the criminal Saint-Rambertese Who smuggled in tobacco, half-a-pound! The Octroi found it out and fined the wretch.
c. attrib.
1862Thackeray Philip (1869) II. viii. 119 The octroi officers never stop gentlemen going out..upon duelling business. 1865Day of Rest Oct. 582 Articles liable to the town or octroi tax. 1884H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 142 The octroi duties are very mischievous and vexing. |