Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.
- 3transitive verb
To lay or impose an excise upon.
- 4transitive verb
To impose upon; to overcharge.
- 5transitive verb
To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
- 6noun
a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
- 7verb
remove by cutting
"The surgeon excised the tumor"
- 8verb
remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
"Please strike this remark from the record"
"scratch that remark"
- 9verb
levy an excise tax on
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