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noun

Definition of excisenext
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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verb

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as in to tax

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as in to remove

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Recent Examples of excise
Noun
Lazio’s deal with Polymarket, which is unlicensed by Italy’s customs, excises and monopolies agency, is compliant under the same criteria. — James Horncastle, New York Times, 28 July 2026 If passed, Initiative 175 would direct the spending of our fuel excise taxes and sales taxes on motor vehicles on roads to be exclusively on transportation and the State Patrol. — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
Verb
To find out more, the researchers humanely excised additional fragments from the feet, main body and tentacles of the marine animals and ran a number of lab experiments in untreated seawater. — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 28 May 2026 Following a high-profile dispute with Anthropic over a Pentagon contract—in which the government rejected limits on how the AI platform could be used—Anthropic has been mostly excised from government use and deemed a supply chain risk. — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for excise
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excise
  1. tariff
  2. tax
  3. remove
  4. levy
  5. extract
  6. impose
  7. withdraw
  8. penalize
Noun
  • But more Republicans suggested that the $5000 was on the way, paid for by tariffs – though the cost of the checks would vastly outstrip what the government had collected.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • For months, the hope has been that as the war against Iran wound down, and the effects of tariffs faded, inflation would grind lower.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of tariff
Verb
  • The effort has been working, but the need for such a massive, taxing and expensive operation proves how much influence Iran has gained over the Strait of Hormuz.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Revocable trusts avoid probate but are part of your estate and taxed accordingly.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of tax
Verb
  • The reactor would produce substantial heat that engineers must remove from the vehicle.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
  • For instance, Microsoft has committed not to use sensitive data that many companies leverage, such as information about gender, race, age, ZIP code that can be used to identify a person even if their name is removed.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of remove
Verb
  • Local authorities also reportedly started levying taxes on insurance policy income and salaries that Chinese citizens earned overseas.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • While Detroit currently has enough financial wiggle room to not worry about exceeding the luxury tax, there is the NBA repeater tax levied to teams that go over the luxury tax in at least three out of four seasons.
    — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of levy
Verb
  • Institute of Process Engineering (CAS), alongside Ganfeng Lithium, has launched the world’s first 500-tonne annual capacity production line in Jiangxi province to extract rubidium and cesium from lithium mining waste.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
  • True economic success in 2026 isn’t about extracting the last dollar from a negative-margin middle class.
    — Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of extract
Verb
  • When Roebbelen began building a cabin there as a UC Davis student and journeyman carpenter, his father imposed a condition that made the project part construction job, part character test.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The Louisiana ruling prevents the SEC from imposing its rules — and LSU from keeping those players off the team — but the conference is ready to take that question to court in Alabama, where the league office is located.
    — Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of impose
Verb
  • Some job seekers are pushing back against AI interviews in hiring — refusing them, withdrawing as candidates, or even blacklisting employers from future consideration.
    — Sarah Jackson Juhohn Lee, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • One candidate for the job, Tigers general manager Jeff Greenberg, publicly withdrew from consideration last week.
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of withdraw
Verb
  • New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania have introduced or passed legislation penalizing the practice and requiring employers to disclose hiring timelines or remove filled postings, while Texas has opened its own investigation into a major job board.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The system should be programmed to actively penalize source monopolies, forcing the engine to scrape a healthy mix of technical journalism, independent community forums (like Reddit threads), and video transcripts.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of penalize

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