excise1
noun /ˈeksaɪz/
/ˈeksaɪz/
[uncountable]- a government tax on some goods made, sold or used within a country
- new excise duties on low-alcohol drinks
- a sharp increase in vehicle excise
- an excise officer (= an official whose job is to collect excise)
Extra Examples- the excise levied on beer and tobacco
- to increase the excise on whisky
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + excise- impose
- levy
- increase
- …
- duty
- tax
- licence
- …
- excise on
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the general sense ‘a tax or toll’): from Middle Dutch excijs, accijs, perhaps based on Latin accensare ‘to tax’, from ad- ‘to’ + census ‘tax’ (see census).