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Definition of tax : 1. A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
2. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
4. A lesson to be learned; a task.
5. A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
6. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
7. Charge; censure.
8. Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
9. To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
10. To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; - often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
11. To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.

Synonyms:

interest, millstone, discount, measure, impost, appraise, obligation, headache, onus, burden, politics, weight, imposition, demand, money, tax revenue, difficulty, strain, taxation, over, evaluate, fine, revenue, assessment, heavy, revenue enhancement, contribution, tax income, task, assess, dues, pay, valuate

expense, premium, charge, tab, tariff, price, duty, outlay, value, cost, figure, quotation, toll, dearness, rate, worth, damage, amount, levy

Usage examples:

• The tax fell with heavy weight upon the small farmer. - "Union and Democracy", Allen Johnson.
• But to proceed- and here again I must tax your memory. - "A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker'", Robert Carmichael-Smyth.
• There is a tendency to tax all land at its real value; and, except with good management, it will not pay to keep sheep on land fit for grain and taxed as grain land, which a great deal of the grazing land is. - "Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands", Charles Nordhoff.