| 释义 |
Definition of exaction in English: exactionnoun ɛɡˈzakʃ(ə)nɪɡˈzakʃ(ə)nɪɡˈzækʃən mass nounformal 1The action of demanding and obtaining something from someone, especially a payment. he supervised the exaction of tolls at various ports Example sentencesExamples - His ruthless exaction of tribute from the areas where his army operated led to his dismissal at the demand of the German electors in 1630.
- His armpits start smelling of meat; he becomes an urban caveman, forever subjecting Russia to ‘the detailed exaction of his connubial rights’.
- After taxes, and other exactions including, in many cases, rent, the peasantry had not enough left to rear sufficient children to counterbalance the high death rate.
- Tax exaction became centralized, more efficient, and less expensive.
- However, the abuses that most affect ordinary Burmese-the expropriation of land, the conscription of labor, the arbitrary exaction of goods and funds, and the disastrously failing economy-are the products of state failure.
- By shifting the balance of tax exaction to consumption taxes, the government was able to reap the benefits of the growth in conspicuous consumption associated with the rise of the middling classes.
- Taking the primary definition as it was, how then did section 16 operate as to the exaction of the payment to the revenue?
- Similarly, the exaction of stiff reprisals for unexpected attacks on troops remote from the fighting front might cow the local population, or might stimulate them to more aggressive resistance.
- In economic terms, the exaction which was being delivered could be thought of as a tax on land value or recoupment of community benefit.
- As it this was not enough to drain the resource of the mainly Catholic tenants, there was the exaction of money from the impoverished Catholics by the parsons.
- Indeed, in a bull of 1212, Pope Innocent III relaxed the obligations of prior oaths and forbade the exaction of similar oaths in the future.
- As I have attempted to submit in paragraph 5.8, it can constitute an equitable fraud because such a failure results in an improper exaction of income tax to the financial detriment of the taxpayer.
- Again, however, the central point is that the redistribution resulted from Soviet choice, rather than from American exaction.
- Collected under direct military pressure, these allowed exactions of money and payments in kind at considerably higher rates than any civil system permitted.
- This was followed by the further exaction from China of the right to build a railway through the Liaodong peninsula to the border of Korea; Liaodong, so recently saved from Japan, now passed into Russian control.
- In fact, freed of the crushing exactions laid upon them by a Rome always eager to bribe its vast, unproductive military class into quietude, they may even have been left to enjoy more of the fruits of their own labors than usual.
- Norman ducal revenues were insufficient to meet even the cost of garrisoning its defences and so, to fund Richard's seemingly never-ending wars against Philip, England was subjected to unprecedented levels of financial exaction.
- Taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions.
- So far as the Norman kings were concerned it could only be a question of overlordship, of reprisals against Scottish and Welsh raids, and, perhaps, the exaction of tribute from subordinate kings.
- Redemption is the restoration of balance by the exaction of punishment or a payment in punishment's place (a satisfaction), a punishment proportionate to the position in the hierarchy of the one offended.
Synonyms demanding money with menaces, extraction, blackmail - 1.1count noun A sum of money exacted from someone.
the billions flow in through 28 taxes and countless smaller exactions Example sentencesExamples - On his estate, rents were collected, a grace period given if needed, but no other exactions were demanded.
- Until about 1825 a long slight inflation had kept peasant incomes abreast of the increasing exactions of the official and sub-official classes.
- Apart from demanding an increase in wages, they demanded that the military stop collecting illegal exactions from the truck drivers at the gates.
- The productive had to bear ever greater tax burdens in order to support the growing numbers of degenerates, and higher fiscal exactions naturally persuaded the prudent middle classes to go in for practices of family limitation.
- Rising tax exactions invariably dampened the spirits of charity.
Synonyms imposition, charging, raising, collection, gathering
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin exactio(n-), from exigere 'ascertain, perfect, enforce' (see exact). Rhymes abstraction, action, attraction, benefaction, compaction, contraction, counteraction, diffraction, enaction, extraction, faction, fraction, interaction, liquefaction, malefaction, petrifaction, proaction, protraction, putrefaction, redaction, retroaction, satisfaction, stupefaction, subtraction, traction, transaction, tumefaction, vitrifaction Definition of exaction in US English: exactionnounɪɡˈzækʃəniɡˈzakSHən formal 1The action of demanding and obtaining something from someone, especially a payment or service. he supervised the exaction of tolls at various ports Example sentencesExamples - Similarly, the exaction of stiff reprisals for unexpected attacks on troops remote from the fighting front might cow the local population, or might stimulate them to more aggressive resistance.
- Taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions.
- His ruthless exaction of tribute from the areas where his army operated led to his dismissal at the demand of the German electors in 1630.
- In fact, freed of the crushing exactions laid upon them by a Rome always eager to bribe its vast, unproductive military class into quietude, they may even have been left to enjoy more of the fruits of their own labors than usual.
- Collected under direct military pressure, these allowed exactions of money and payments in kind at considerably higher rates than any civil system permitted.
- Tax exaction became centralized, more efficient, and less expensive.
- Taking the primary definition as it was, how then did section 16 operate as to the exaction of the payment to the revenue?
- After taxes, and other exactions including, in many cases, rent, the peasantry had not enough left to rear sufficient children to counterbalance the high death rate.
- As it this was not enough to drain the resource of the mainly Catholic tenants, there was the exaction of money from the impoverished Catholics by the parsons.
- In economic terms, the exaction which was being delivered could be thought of as a tax on land value or recoupment of community benefit.
- Indeed, in a bull of 1212, Pope Innocent III relaxed the obligations of prior oaths and forbade the exaction of similar oaths in the future.
- Redemption is the restoration of balance by the exaction of punishment or a payment in punishment's place (a satisfaction), a punishment proportionate to the position in the hierarchy of the one offended.
- Norman ducal revenues were insufficient to meet even the cost of garrisoning its defences and so, to fund Richard's seemingly never-ending wars against Philip, England was subjected to unprecedented levels of financial exaction.
- This was followed by the further exaction from China of the right to build a railway through the Liaodong peninsula to the border of Korea; Liaodong, so recently saved from Japan, now passed into Russian control.
- However, the abuses that most affect ordinary Burmese-the expropriation of land, the conscription of labor, the arbitrary exaction of goods and funds, and the disastrously failing economy-are the products of state failure.
- So far as the Norman kings were concerned it could only be a question of overlordship, of reprisals against Scottish and Welsh raids, and, perhaps, the exaction of tribute from subordinate kings.
- By shifting the balance of tax exaction to consumption taxes, the government was able to reap the benefits of the growth in conspicuous consumption associated with the rise of the middling classes.
- As I have attempted to submit in paragraph 5.8, it can constitute an equitable fraud because such a failure results in an improper exaction of income tax to the financial detriment of the taxpayer.
- His armpits start smelling of meat; he becomes an urban caveman, forever subjecting Russia to ‘the detailed exaction of his connubial rights’.
- Again, however, the central point is that the redistribution resulted from Soviet choice, rather than from American exaction.
Synonyms demanding money with menaces, extraction, blackmail - 1.1 A sum of money demanded for a payment or service.
Example sentencesExamples - Apart from demanding an increase in wages, they demanded that the military stop collecting illegal exactions from the truck drivers at the gates.
- Rising tax exactions invariably dampened the spirits of charity.
- On his estate, rents were collected, a grace period given if needed, but no other exactions were demanded.
- Until about 1825 a long slight inflation had kept peasant incomes abreast of the increasing exactions of the official and sub-official classes.
- The productive had to bear ever greater tax burdens in order to support the growing numbers of degenerates, and higher fiscal exactions naturally persuaded the prudent middle classes to go in for practices of family limitation.
Synonyms imposition, charging, raising, collection, gathering
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin exactio(n-), from exigere ‘ascertain, perfect, enforce’ (see exact). |