English Dictionary

tax

IPA（発音記号）

/tæks/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 比喩的用法 廃用

Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services. / (figuratively, uncountable) A burdensome demand.

日本語の意味

政府に対して支払う税金。 / 過大な負担や要求、負担となるもの。

Every year I set aside a portion of my income to pay the tax on my freelance earnings.

毎年、フリーランスの収入にかかる税金を支払うために収入の一部を確保しています。

意味（1）

Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

意味（2）

(figuratively, uncountable) A burdensome demand.

a heavy tax on time or health

意味（3）

A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

意味（4）

(obsolete) charge; censure

Flie far from hence All private taxes, immodest phrases, What e'r may but shew like vicious.

taxes （ plural ）