as in tariffs
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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Recent Examples of excises
Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
Higher Ed Excise Taxes In most parts of [America], excises must be confined within a narrow compass.
—Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excises
Noun
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Trump levied his greatest assault against the international economic order, announcing the most expansive set of tariffs in American history on both autocratic adversaries and America’s closest democratic allies in April 2025 (Russia was strikingly excluded).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Harley-Davidson said to date tariffs have cost the company $45 million.—
Ricardo Torres,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The business taxes specialist supports and provides guidance to the operations administrator and the Field Operations Division team on administrative issues related to the operations of field offices.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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The rest of the world taxes only residents, in most cases based on worldwide income.—
Kathleen Peddicord,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Meeting tools include one-tap minute generation and a circle-to-search gesture that extracts key points in real time.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Oct. 2025
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The piece extracts a section of words from a 1935 essay by philosopher Walter Benjamin and deconstructs them into individual letters, which are then rendered in silver mylar balloons.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Additionally, the contract now imposes limits on how many times producers can schedule performers to work 13 or more consecutive performances without a day off.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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State law prohibits coal from contaminating the state’s waters and imposes a $25,000 civil fine for each penalty.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The right choice is the one that removes friction.—
Rebecca Lazar,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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Disney removes some channels from YouTube TV.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Casting blame on Tylenol for autism wrongly positions the condition as a problem—and levies unfair guilt on moms.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
23 Sep. 2025
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Unlike the blanket levies the US imposed on much of the world in April, the steel and aluminum tariffs are not the target of litigation making its way to the Supreme Court.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Musk withdraws the California suit in June, then files a federal suit in August.—
Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
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If a parent later withdraws permission, the app developer must be notified to disable access.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Each week during the NFL's regular season, the league penalizes players for their actions in the previous week's games.—
Anne Erickson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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The Big 12 Conference is now enforcing a new rule enacted in the offseason that penalizes teams for objects being thrown on the field, and Texas Tech has been forced to institute the ban.—
Jordy Fee-Platt,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Excises.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excises. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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