(January 23, 2013 at 2:11 pm)jonb Wrote:(January 23, 2013 at 1:28 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Would you please clarify in what sense you meant the word 'tax'?
tax /tæks/ Show Spelled[taks]
noun
1. a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
2. a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand.
verb (used with object)
3. (of a government)
a. to demand a tax from (a person, business, etc.).
b. to demand a tax in consideration of the possession or occurrence of (income, goods, sales, etc.), usually in proportion to the value of money involved.
4. to lay a burden on; make serious demands on: to tax one's resources.
5. to take to task; censure; reprove; accuse: to tax one with laziness.
6. Informal . to charge: What did he tax you for that?
7. Archaic . to estimate or determine the amount or value of.
You see in even in the above definitions, that the word tax is not solely defined as pertaining to a government.
No, it isn't. Is there some reason you won't come out and say in what sense you DID mean it? All I see from you so far is that it wasn't the first one. Maybe the definition I provided doesn't cover the sense you used, I'm not married to this particular definition, I just want to know what you meant.
