Uttal

  • UttalUS
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ÖversättningKontext
Substantiv
1.vergi
2.harçfinanshushållning

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
  2. A burdensome demand.
  3. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
  4. (obsolete) charge; censure
  5. (obsolete) A lesson to be learned.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person).
  2. (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
  3. (transitive) To make excessive demands on.

Exempel

  • In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
  • a heavy tax on time or health
  • Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
  • Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
  • Do not tax my patience.
  • But patent applications are increasingly accompanied by volumes and volumes of data on DVD, which taxes the resources of the patent office.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticiptaxedImperfekttaxed
PresensparticiptaxingPluraltaxes
Tredje person singular indicativ presenstaxesTredje person singular indicativ presenstaxeth