tax
n. வரி, திறை, கடுஞ்சுமை, பெரும் பாரம், தாங்க முடியாத் தொல்லை, பெருங்கட்டம், துயர்க்கடமைச்சுமை, (வினை வரி விதி, வரி மதிப்பிடு, தாங்க முடியா நிலைப்படுத்து, வரி விதிப்பிற்குரிய ஆள் பதிவுசெய், கடும்பளுச் சமந்து, வற்புறுத்திக் கோரு, வற்புறுத்திப் பெறு, வலிந்து செயலாற்றுவி, குற்றஞ் சாட்டு, (சட்) இசைவளிப்பது அல்லது மறுப்பது முன்னிட்டு மதிப்பினங்களை ஆய்வுசெய்.
Synonyms
Tax, n. Etym: [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task, Taste.] 1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: -- (a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious. Macaulay. (b) 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. Note: Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or indirect, etc. (c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses. 2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. 3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health. 4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] Clarendon. 5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] Johnson. Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.] Syn. -- Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand. Tax, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Taxing.] Etym: [Cf. F. taxer. See Tax, n.] 1. 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. We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government. Franklin. 2. (Law) Defn: To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court. 3. 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. I tax you, you elements, with unkindness. Shak. Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. Dryden. Fear not now that men should tax thine honor. M. Arnold.