excise

Pronunciation: /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/

The English word “excise” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).

verb

To impose an excise tax on something.
To cut out; to remove.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).

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