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EXCISE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)

Synonyms:

excise; excise tax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("excise" 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 "excise"):

nuisance tax; sales tax (a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer)

ad valorem tax; value-added tax; VAT (a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production)

gasoline tax (a tax on every gallon of gasoline sold)

Derivation:

excise (levy an excise tax on)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove by cutting

Example:

The surgeon excised the tumor

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

cut out (delete or remove)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

excision (surgical removal of a body part or tissue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

Example:

scratch that remark

Synonyms:

excise; expunge; scratch; strike

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

cancel; delete (remove or make invisible)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

excision (the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Levy an excise tax on

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

tax (levy a tax on)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

excise (a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate))

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