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[ taks-pey-er ] / ˈtæksˌpeɪ ər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR taxpayer ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation. a temporary building that yields rent sufficient only to pay the taxes on the property on which it stands. Origin of taxpayerFirst recorded in 1810–20; tax + payer OTHER WORDS FROM taxpayertaxpaying, nounWords nearby taxpayertaxo-, Taxol, taxon, taxonomy, taxpaid, taxpayer, tax rate, tax relief, tax return, tax sale, tax sharing Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for taxpayerGod help us, it all took place on our taxpayer dime, all in the name of defending the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. After Torture Report, Our Moral Authority As a Nation Is Gone|Nick Gillespie|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST Mattson says the government bogarts this stuff, gathered at taxpayer expense, and maintains “a monopoly on the data.” What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear|Doug Peacock|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST Every “Good Kill,” or successfully dispatched militant, costs $68,000 in taxpayer dollars. Ethan Hawke's 'Good Kill': A Searing Indictment of America's Drone Warfare Obsession|Marlow Stern|September 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST They had tanks and mortars and all sorts of armaments provided by the American taxpayer. Iraq Is Vietnam 2.0 And U.S. Drones Won’t Solve The Problem|Leslie H. Gelb|June 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was his taxpayer dollars, after all, that had gone to funding these explicitly religious events. Should Atheists Pay for a Prayer Day? A Nebraskan Town’s Crisis of Faith|Scott Bixby|May 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST It was said he had saved the taxpayer a million dollars during the first year of his administration. Fragments of an Autobiography|Felix Moscheles The pre-war standard is an alternative one at the option of the taxpayer. The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various None can be sufficient in this case without levelling a finger at the taxpayer—nay, directly mentioning him. Beauchamp's Career, Complete|George Meredith Nothing consolidates the Republic so much as the uninjured powers of the taxpayer.' The Letters of Cassiodorus|Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator) But I am not advocating tax reduction merely for the benefit of the taxpayer; I am advocating it for the benefit of the country. State of the Union Addresses of Calvin Coolidge|Calvin Coolidge
British Dictionary definitions for taxpayer
nouna person or organization that pays taxes or is liable to taxation Derived forms of taxpayertaxpaying, adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to taxpayerresident, citizen, voter, civilian, national, settler, inhabitant, villager, suffragist, dweller, commoner, aborigine, denizen, subject, householder, occupant, native, cosmopolite, burgher, burgess |