| 单词 | excise |
| 释义 | excise (once / 2037 pages) 1v 2nv An excise tax is a special tax levied on specific products sold within a country. To excise something can also mean to get rid of it. Say, wouldn't it be nice if they would excise the excise taxes? An excise tax is simply an extra tax put on various products. Perhaps the most common examples are the taxes levied on tobacco and liquor, often called "sin taxes" because drinking and smoking are considered vices. There is also an excise tax on gasoline. To cover the tax, the seller will usually raise the price of the item. Interestingly, the word excise (ek-SIZE) used as a verb means to remove something by cutting it out. Good luck with excising the excise taxes! WORD FAMILYexcise: excised, excises, excising, excision+/excision: excisions USAGE EXAMPLESThe “scum of the world” lines are excised, and the scourging of Jesus is ascribed not to Jewish soldiers but to Pilate. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) He was initially a fierce critic of Trump, saying he represented a “cancer on conservatism” that should be “clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded”. The Guardian(Dec 11, 2016) Central Puget Sound Regional Transportation Authority, Wash., $400 million of sales tax and motor vehicle excise tax bonds. New York Times(Dec 04, 2016) 1 1v remove by cutting The surgeon excised the tumor Hyper cut out delete or remove 2v remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line 2Syn|Hyper expunge, scratch, strike cancel, delete remove or make invisible 1n a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate) Syn|Hypo|Hyper excise tax nuisance tax, sales tax a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer VAT, ad valorem tax, value-added taxa tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production gasoline taxa tax on every gallon of gasoline sold indirect tax a tax levied on goods or services rather than on persons or organizations 2v levy an excise tax on Hyper tax levy a tax on |
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