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tax
What does tax mean?
tax (noun): charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce tax?
/tæks/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does tax come from?
From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxō (“to appraise, value, estimate; (medieval) to tax”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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