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✂️ To cut out 💰 A goods tax 💰 To tax goods
to excise

to excise

1 7.8
To charge a tax on goods like alcohol or tobacco
  • verb
  • /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
  • Specialized
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  • The proposal included plans to excise an excise tax on services to boost local businesses.

Examples

  • For decades, the Japanese government urged textbook publishers to excise any hint of the brutalities committed by the army.

    Academic text (1998)

  • In it, he and co-authors Daniel Jones and Daniel Roos chronicle how Toyota excised waste from its business processes and saved untold dollars in the process.

    Academic text (2005)

  • When we see music educator positions and programs excised or music budgets cut while other curricular areas are left unaffected or receive more favorable allotments of time and money, we conclude that music education is considered to be less valuable than other courses of study in the public schools.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The government decided to excise a tax on luxury goods to increase revenue.

  • To improve his budget, the city council voted to excise taxes on certain imported goods.

Synonyms

to tax
vsto excise
150 1.9

To make people pay money to the government on income or goods

is narrower, used only for levies on goods or commodities

Compounds

excise tax
  • Specialized
11 5.5

A tax on goods like tobacco and alcohol charged for each item or amount sold

How High

surcharge
31 5.5
to excise
  • Specialized
1 7.8
to tax
150 1.9
to levy
  • Formal
11 5.4
to charge
808 2.0

Surface Forms

excise infinitive
excised past
excised past participle
excising present participle
excises third person singular

Etymology

Excise comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and caedere 'to cut'; imagine the government 'cutting out' a small part of the price of a product and keeping it, which is why to excise goods is to put a special tax on them.