excise

excise is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.
2. noun. That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.
3. transitive verb. To lay or impose an excise upon.
4. transitive verb. To impose upon; to overcharge.
5. transitive verb. To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
6. noun. a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
7. verb. remove by cutting

   "The surgeon excised the tumor"

8. verb. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

   "Please strike this remark from the record"

   "scratch that remark"

   Synonyms: expunge, scratch, strike

9. verb. levy an excise tax on

Synonyms

expunge, scratch, strike

Common word forms

excised, excises, excising

Words from these letters

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