excise

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n. (烟、酒等)消费税, 货物税, 国产税 vt. 切除

发音

UK /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
US /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
UK /əkˈsaɪz/
AU
US /əkˈsaɪz/

词形变化

excises 复数 excises excises 三单 excising 现在分词 excised 过去式 excised 过去分词

别名

excize

教材释义与例句

名词

消费税；货物税

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    可数 不可数

    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;

v.
  1. 1.

    To impose an excise tax on something.

  2. 1.

    To cut out; to remove.

    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.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

excise tax

上位词 1

indirect tax

下位词 3

sales tax ad valorem tax nuisance tax
动词

同义词 3

strike scratch expunge

上位词 4

tax cancel delete cut out

相关短语

excise tax [经] 营业税, 货物税, 消费税 excise taxes excise glass excise glasses excise duty excise duties [经] 消费税, 货物税 central excise customs and excise

词源

From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).

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