noun.
Same as collateral-inheritance tax. See collateral and death-duty.
To lay a burden or burdens on; make demands upon; put to a certain strain; task: as, to tax one's memory.
To subject to the payment of taxes; impose a tax on; levy money or other contributions from, as from subjects or citizens, to meet the expenses of government: as, to tax land, commodities, or income; to tax a people.
In the New Testament, to register (persons and their property) for the purpose of imposing tribute.
In law, to examine and allow or disallow items of charge for costs, fees, or disbursements: as, the court taxes bills of cost.
To accuse; charge; take to task: with of or (as now commonly) with before the thing charged.
To take to task; censure; blame.
To indulge in ridicule or satire.
noun.
A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; an exaction; a requisition; an oppressive demand; strain; burden; task.
noun.
An enforced proportional contribution levied on persons, property, or income, either by the authority of the state for the support of the government, and for all its public or governmental needs, or
noun.
by local authority, for general municipal purposes.
noun.
Charge; censure.
noun.
A lesson to be learned; a task.
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Assessment is either the valuation of property for the purpose of its taxation;
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the imposing of the tax; or
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a charge on specific real property of a share of the expense of a local improvement specially benefiting that property. Tribute views the tax as laid not for the public good, but arbitrarily for the benefit of the one levying it, especially a conqueror: as, “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.” Each of these words had its older, peculiar, or figurative uses. See definitions of the words, and also of subsidy.