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单词 tax-gatherer
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tax-gatherern.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtax-ˌgatherer.
archaic.
A collector of taxes.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > tax collection > [noun] > tax-collector
catchpoleOE
publicanc1175
tallagerc1400
leviera1513
vectigal1535
renter?1536
task-gatherer1552
exactor1570
uptaker1576
exacter1596
mise-gatherer1597
taxer1603
tax-taker1610
raiser1611
summonitor1617
summonisterc1625
riding officer1675
zamindar1683
tax-gatherer1693
desai1698
amildar1761
amil1763
collector1772
tax-master1796
tehsildar1799
taxman1803
tax-receiver1830
tax-collector1833
the taxes1874
revenuer1877
revenue1880
levyist1923
T-man1938
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Taske gatherer, exactor.]
1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxxiii Casaubon..says that Horace being the Son of a Tax-gatherer..smells every where of the meanness of his Birth.
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. IV. l. 403 The oppressions of the tax-gatherers..were considered as so severe, that the army once more rose to vindicate their freedom.
1826 Syd. Smith Let. Catholic Quest. in Wks. (1859) II. 232/1 The tax-gatherer is the most indulgent and liberal of human beings;..and is candidly and impartially oppressive to every description of the Christian world.
1904 Expositor Mar. 213 Christ..certainly had a taxgatherer for one of his chief disciples.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

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tax-gatherer
b. esp. A collector of money, often with defining word as rent-gatherer, tax-gatherer, toll-gatherer (now commonly -collector).
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a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 413 Rasers of the fals tax And gederars of greyn wax.
1521 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 318 They that were the gaderers of this trybute came to saynt Peter.
1572 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 342 To appoynt two gatherers..for the same money.
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