A person who leases (usually from a monarch, the church, state, etc.) the right to collect a tax or duty and retain the whole of the revenue, in…

A person who pays a fixed sum in return for the right to collect tolls or taxes; a tax farmer or toll farmer. Obsolete. rare.

In France: a tax farmer (see farmer, n.2 1a); an administrator or collector of taxes. Cf. financer, n. 1. historical in later use.

One who undertakes to carry out work or business for another; a contractor; †a collector or farmer of taxes. Now rare.

In France: a tax farmer (see farmer, n.2 1a); an administrator or collector of taxes; = financier, n. 1. Obsolete (historical in later use).

In pre-revolutionary France and its overseas territories: a person who rents the right to set and collect the taxes or duties of a particular…

(under-, prefix1 affix 3a(a).)