| 单词 | hut tax |
| 释义 | > as lemmashut tax hut tax n. now historical (in southern Africa) a tax introduced in the 19th cent. and imposed on black people by various governments and authorities.So called because the tax was originally levied per hut or group of huts owned by the head of a family. ΚΠ 1850 Manch. Courier 16 Feb. 238/3 The Zoolos and other native tribes, 180,000 in number, who are now restricted by law to certain localities, and subject to a hut tax, have not once been known, within the last two years, to commit any outrage on the white settlers. 1884 Nonconformist & Independent 28 Feb. 213/2 The cost..being defrayed by a hut-tax. 1969 Tanzania Notes & Rec. July 10 Every adult male native not liable to hut-tax..had to pay 1–3 rupees a year. 2000 G. Marinovich & J. Silva Bang-Bang Club (2001) vi. 81 Black families had to send men to the mines in order to earn the cash needed to pay poll-, hut- and even dog-taxes. < as lemmas |
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