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EXCISE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
Synonyms:
excise; excise tax
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("excise" is a kind of...):
indirect tax (a tax levied on goods or services rather than on persons or organizations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excise"):
nuisance tax; sales tax (a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer)
ad valorem tax; value-added tax; VAT (a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production)
gasoline tax (a tax on every gallon of gasoline sold)
Derivation:
excise (levy an excise tax on)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they excise ... he / she / it excises
Past simple: excised
-ing form: excising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
The surgeon excised the tumor
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "excise" is one way to...):
cut out (delete or remove)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
excision (surgical removal of a body part or tissue)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
Example:
scratch that remark
Synonyms:
excise; expunge; scratch; strike
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "excise" is one way to...):
cancel; delete (remove or make invisible)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
excision (the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "excise" is one way to...):
tax (levy a tax on)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
excise (a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate))