单词 | tax |
释义 | Word Frequency tax(tæks) noun 1. a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services, etc 2. a heavy demand on something; strain a tax on our resources verb (transitive) 3. to levy a tax on (persons, companies, etc, or their incomes, etc) 4. to make heavy demands on; strain to tax one's intellect 5. to accuse, charge, or blame he was taxed with the crime 6. to determine (the amount legally chargeable or allowable to a party to a legal action), as by examining the solicitor's bill of costs to tax costs 7. slang to steal Derived forms taxer (ˈtaxer) noun taxless (ˈtaxless) adjective Word origin C13: from Old French taxer, from Latin taxāre to appraise, from tangere to touch |
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