TARIFF

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A government tax on imports or exports

Example:

they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries

Synonyms:

duty; tariff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("tariff" 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 "tariff"):

custom; customs; customs duty; impost (money collected under a tariff)

tonnage; tonnage duty; tunnage (a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship)

octroi (a tax on various goods brought into a town)

revenue tariff (a tariff imposed to raise revenue)

protective tariff (a tariff imposed to protect domestic firms from import competition)

import duty (a duty imposed on imports)

export duty (a duty imposed on exports)

countervailing duty (a duty imposed to offset subsidies by foreign governments)

Derivation:

tariff (charge a tariff)

Meaning:

Charge a tariff

Example:

tariff imported goods

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "tariff" is one way to...):

tax (levy a tax on)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

tariff (a government tax on imports or exports)