| 单词 | book of rates |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbook of rates book of rates n. now historical a book listing official valuations of commodities, esp. for tax or customs purposes. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > book book of rates1565 toll-book1607 1565 Ordinance Bk. Merchants of Staple (Staple Company of Eng.) (1937) 120 The clerke..shall..enter every mans parcelle..into a booke of sales called the booke of rates. 1580 R. Hakluyt in Princ. Navigations (1599) I. 441 Take with you the booke of Rates, to the ende you may pricke all those commodities there specified. 1651 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 119. 1850 According to the price of corn, and Book of Rates. 1729 Warkworth Vestry Minutes 14 Apr. in S. Webb & B. Webb Eng. Local Govt. (1906) I. vi. 216 Twice and a half the book of rates for or upon account of the poor for this running year. 1764 H. Wilmot Let. 3 Mar. in Jenkinson Papers (1949) 269 Paneels are not called sugar in the Book of Rates. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 130 Book of rates, books specifying the customary duties on all goods payable at the Custom-House. 1912 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 26 766 The Book of Rates of 1583 explicitly states that the rates, or official valuations for customs purposes, were issued by Queen Mary in the first year of her reign. 2010 N. Zahedieh Capital & Colonies i. 12 Most goods were taxed at the official valuations given in the book of rates..and thus no value was recorded in the portbooks. < as lemmas |
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