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noun

Definition of excisenext
as in tariff
an amount of money that a government requires people to pay according to the value of certain possessions that are made, sold, or used within a country The state seems to impose an excise on any number of goods.

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verb

1
as in to tax

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2
as in to remove

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Recent Examples of excise
Noun
The federal government collects revenue from businesses and residents in the form of personal income taxes, social security and Medicare taxes, corporate income taxes and excise taxes. — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025 In addition to support for the work of these organizations, upland bird hunters pumped billions more dollars into private lands management, and their license sales and excise taxes paid on guns and ammunition have been the funding backbone for state wildlife agencies for more than a generation. — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
Verb
At the time, Redman told the committee that the bill removed all the services that lawmakers could excise under federal law. — Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 10 Feb. 2025 Seeing Through Time 2 (2019), in which a Black woman’s elegant portrait peeks out through the silhouette of a 17th-century portrait of a white duchess that has been excised. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for excise
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excise
  1. tariff
  2. tax
  3. remove
  4. levy
  5. extract
  6. impose
  7. withdraw
  8. penalize
Noun
  • What to expect as Trump’s tariffs go into effect March 04, 2025 4:47 PM This story was originally published March 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 21 Mar. 2025
  • But cars are increasingly expensive, even leaving aside tariff drama.
    — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of tariff
Verb
  • Income and gains are taxed to the trust when retained by the trust or taxed to the beneficiaries when distributed to them.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Almost every other country in the world doesn’t buy much of our goods because of hefty tariffs, which is why Jack Daniels and Levi’s jeans get taxed.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of tax
Verb
  • In other instances, including the president's attempt to invoke the wartime Alien Enemies Act to remove certain migrants, judges have issued temporary restraining orders that prevent enforcement of a policy, typically for 14 days, to allow for further proceedings.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Most of it has been public since 2018, but the version released on Tuesday removed a final redaction about the agency’s extensive use of State Department jobs as cover for its agents.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
Definition of remove
Verb
  • The nightmare of all ownership comparisons was soon levied by the younger Bill Simmons: the Adelson and Dumont families, the Dallas Mavericks' new majority owners.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • State of play: President Trump levied — and in some cases, walked back — 25% tariffs that targeted goods from Canada and Mexico to China earlier this month, as well as steel and aluminum imports.
    — Anna Spiegel, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of levy
Verb
  • After abolition, the U.S. economy found new ways to extract labor from Black people: sharecropping, prison labor, and low-wage industrial labor.
    — Banseka Kayembe, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • His team developed a set of out-of-context reasoning tests to probe whether AI can extract implicit rules and act upon them without explicit examples.
    — Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of extract
Verb
  • Trump earlier announced 25 percent targeted tariffs on Canada and Mexico, his country’s largest trade partners, and has threatened to impose tariffs on all Canadian goods imported into the U.S. on April 2.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2025
  • This agreement, and others like it, didn’t do very much to mitigate the high tariffs imposed by the McKinley and Dingley Acts.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of impose
Verb
  • The annual auto auction in Canada confirmed Tesla received multiple opportunities to voluntarily withdraw from the event due to safety concerns.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Kim was scheduled to face Eduarda Moura in her UFC debut in November 2023, but the former withdrew.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of withdraw
Verb
  • Four Formula One teams - Mercedes, Red Bull, McLaren, and Aston Martin, were penalized by the FIA for late arrival in Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix this weekend due to logistical challenges, forcing teams to break the revised curfew.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Former President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, passed in 2022, included a provision that penalized pharmaceutical companies which raised Medicare drug prices faster than inflation.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2025
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