excise — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

1. A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).

   Uso

   • contable
   • no contable

   Sinónimos

   excise tax

   Ejemplos

   Más ejemplos (3)

   Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

   1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise", A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.

   1787, Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 8, The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts […] of the United States;

Verbo

1. To impose an excise tax on something.

Verbo

1. To cut out; to remove.

   Palabras relacionadas

   excision

   Ejemplos

   Military censors have excised some details from the photographs for security reasons.

   [T]hey [warts] may be lifted up with the forceps, and excised with a knife or scissors, and the wound touched with nitrate of silver.

   Más ejemplos (4)

   1901, Andrew Lang, Preface to the second edition of Myth, Ritual, and Religion, In revising the book I […] have excised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.

   In the opposite direction the allowance of 103 min. for the 83.8 miles from Waterloo to Salisbury, which has remained untouched since the worst period in the war, when it included a Woking stop that long since has been excised, was another timing that left drivers completely nonplussed at times as to how to fill it out.

   Insanity can be cured. Personality disorders are so inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them.

   A person is guilty of an offence if he excises, infibulates or otherwise mutilates the whole or any part of a girl’s labia majora, labia minora or clitoris.

Sustantivo

1. a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)

   Sinónimos

   excise tax

   Términos más generales

   indirect tax

Verbo

1. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

   Sinónimos

   strikescratchexpunge

   Términos más generales

   deletecancel

   Ejemplos

   Please strike this remark from the record

   scratch that remark

2. levy an excise tax on

   Términos más generales

   tax

3. remove by cutting

   Términos más generales

   cut out

   Ejemplos

   The surgeon excised the tumor