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单词 opgaaf
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opgaafn.

Brit. /ˈɒpɡɑːf/, U.S. /ˈɑpɡɑf/, South African English /ˈɒpxɑːf/
Forms: 1800s offgaft, 1800s opgaff, 1800s opgraaf, 1800s oppgaff, 1800s– opgaaf, 1900s– opgaf. Also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch opgaaf.
Etymology: < Dutch opgaaf statement, account (18th cent. in this sense), nominal formation corresponding to opgeven to give up, hand over < op up prep.1 + geven give v.
South African. Now historical.
At the Cape of Good Hope under the Dutch, and subsequently in the Cape Colony: an annual return or account of livestock, produce, and agricultural land, introduced in 1796 for the purposes of taxation; the documents submitted for this return. Also: the tax calculated from this return.The last known official use of the traditional opgaafrolle (opgaaf rolls) for the submission of tax returns was in 1845; but the term opgaaf appears to have survived beyond this.
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1800 in Statute Law Cape of Good Hope (1862) p. lvii Order of Opgaaf or return of the inhabitants and the stock or property in their possession.
1816 G. Barker Jrnl. 12 Apr. in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) 522/1 Br U— set out this morning to go to Grahams-town to pay the peoples opgaaf a sum of 337 Rds.
1843 R. M. Martin Hist. Colonies Brit. Empire (1967) 477 The first authentic account of the state of the colony is furnished by the Oppgaff or tax lists for 1798.
a1862 J. Ayliff Jrnl. of ‘Harry Hastings’ (1963) 27 Once a year the ‘Myneer’ goes to the town to pay what they call ‘opgaaf’, but he don't care a fig about that.
1936 Cambr. Hist. Brit. Empire VIII. 280 Institutions..were liable..to taxation (the opgaaf).
1968 E. A. Walker Hist. Southern Afr. 77 The annual opgaaf of the burghers' produce became more unreliable than ever.
1988 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 21 718 The amended figures on production..are doubtless closer to historical truth than the recorded opgaaf figures.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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