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Webster 1828 Edition


Taxing

TAX'ING

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ppr.
Imposing a tax; assessing, as a bill of cost; accusing.

TAX'ING

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Noun.
The act of laying a tax; taxation. Luke 2.

Definition 2024


taxing

taxing

English

Verb

taxing

  1. present participle of tax

Adjective

taxing (comparative more taxing, superlative most taxing)

  1. With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
  2. Burdensome, difficult.
    a taxing problem

Noun

taxing (plural taxings)

  1. The act of imposing a tax.
    • Horace Binney
      Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City []