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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as in to tax
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as in to remove
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Recent Examples of excise
Daniel J. Pilla, National Review, 5 May 2025
New excise taxes were put on sugar, alcohol and plastics.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 4 May 2025
New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
The firings have also excised the next generation of leaders at the C.D.C., the N.I.H., the Food and Drug Administration, and other agencies that the department oversees.
—Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Noun
To support his case, Trump correctly points out that until the modern income tax was adopted by the 16th Amendment in 1913, the United States collected the bulk of its revenue through tariffs and excise taxes.
—Daniel J. Pilla, National Review, 5 May 2025
New excise taxes were put on sugar, alcohol and plastics.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 4 May 2025
Verb
The culture and system of DOC has solidified into this morass of unaccountability and negligence that can probably only be excised from without, by an official not tethered to it or the city’s broader political strictures.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
The firings have also excised the next generation of leaders at the C.D.C., the N.I.H., the Food and Drug Administration, and other agencies that the department oversees.
—Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excise
Noun
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The tariffs removed include the 10% universal tariff, the reciprocal tariffs, and the specific tariffs targeting China, Canada, and Mexico.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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On May 12, both nations agreed to significantly lower their tariffs for a 90-day period.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
1 June 2025
Verb
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Instead, part of each income payment will be taxed as a long-term capital gain over your life expectancy.—
Bob Carlson,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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Wasn’t taxing tobacco meant to help reduce tobacco usage?—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 May 2025
Verb
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So everybody that's in the United States, and in this case in Puerto Rico, without an immigration status, needs to be removed or deported.—
Adrian Florido,
NPR,
2 June 2025
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sent a licensed trapper to remove the injured alligator, officials said.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2025
Verb
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Currently, China has a 30% tariff level for goods coming into the U.S., which is reduced from the original 145% Trump levied.—
Isabel Danzis,
ABC News,
1 June 2025
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The ruling halted a 30% tariff on China, a 25% tariff on certain goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% baseline tariffs on most of the rest of the world, but did not affect import taxes on steel, aluminum, or automakers, which Trump levied under a different law.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
29 May 2025
Verb
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This is creating new opportunities to extract and reuse valuable raw materials, lessening Europe’s reliance on external sources.—
Marianne Lehnis,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Federal planning records show that extracting the deposit would over the course of several decades turn Oak Flat — which the Apache call Chí’chil Bildagoteel — into a nearly two-mile-wide, 1,000-foot-deep industrial crater.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
Verb
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Both armies have a small industry devoted to ‘hacking’ the drones, modifying the firmware to get around limitations imposed by the makers and prevent them from being tracked.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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In that case, West Virginia challenged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s authority to impose regulations to effectively control the state's energy policy through the Clean Power Plan.—
Zoltan Istvan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
Verb
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Macron made the remarks as the U.S. is considering withdrawing troops from Europe to shift them to the Indo-Pacific.—
DAVID RISING,
Arkansas Online,
31 May 2025
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President Trump plans to withdraw his nomination of Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and close associate of Elon Musk’s, who was on track to be the next NASA administrator.—
Jonathan Swan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 May 2025
Verb
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This tax is part of a larger bill to improve housing market accessibility for residents, including taxing short-term rental and penalizing owners that leave homes empty.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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Young Republicans also overwhelmingly backed several provisions of the PRO Act that the survey tested, such as expediting the collective-bargaining process, posting information about labor rights in workplaces, and penalizing companies that violate the law.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 May 2025
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“Excise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excise. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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