Look up: Excise

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   Excise
   Excise is a tax on the production of goods. It was first levied in Britain in 1643 on wines, beers, tobacco etc. to raise funds to support the army against Charles I.
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   excise
   [n] - a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate) 2. [v] - levy an excise tax on 3. [v] - remove by cutting
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   Excise
   To cut tissue away surgically.
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   Excise
   Excise: To cut out. A laser beam may be used to excise a tumor, much as a scalpel does. The terms excise and resect are not synonymous. Excise implies total removal whereas resect does not.
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   excise
   direct tax levied on the production or sale of specific products Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs • a duty charged on certain goods and services produced and/or sold within the country,such as tobacco,beer wines and spirits Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs
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   Excise
   Ex·cise' noun [ Apparently from Latin excisum cut off, from excidere to cut out or off; ex out, off + caedere to cut; or, as the word was formerly written accise , from French accise , Late Latin accisia , as if from Latin accidere , accisum , to cut into; ad + caedere to cut; but probably transformed from Old French assis ...
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   Excise
   Ex·cise' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Excised ; present participle & verbal noun Excising .] 1. To lay or impose an excise upon. 2. To impose upon; to overcharge. [ Prov. Eng.]
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   Excise
   Ex·cise' transitive verb [ See Excide .] To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
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   excise
   To cut out. ... See: resect. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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    excise
    excise tax noun a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
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    excise
    verb levy an excise tax on
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    Excise
    `Excise tax`, sometimes called an excise duty, is a type of tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). Typical examples of excise duties are taxes on tobacco, alcohol and gasoline.
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    excise
    (ek-sīz´) to remove by cutting.
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    Excise
    • (v. t.) To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor. • (n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes. • (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grow...
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    excise
    excise 1. To remove by or as if by cutting: 'excised the tumor'; 'excised two scenes from the film'. 2. To delete a part of something such as a text. 3. To remove surgically: to remove something by cutting, especially in surgery. 4. From Latin excis-, past participle of excidere 'to cut out' from caedere 'to cut'.
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