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noun

plural of excise
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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verb

present tense third-person singular of excise
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as in taxes

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Recent Examples of excises
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
  1. tariffs
  2. taxes
  3. extracts
  4. imposes
  5. removes
  6. levies
  7. withdraws
  8. penalizes
Noun
  • And with looming questions about tariffs, labor markets, and shifting political conditions, many companies are treating automation as a long-term hedge against uncertainty, not a one-time upgrade.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 17 July 2026
  • Beyond the Iran war, tariffs are still a top-three issue for executives, according to Homkes.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 July 2026
Definition of tariffs
Verb
  • However, experts say any influx taxes the underfunded system.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 13 July 2026
  • Plenty of genuinely brilliant people are private by nature, and the new arrangement taxes them hardest, handing them a second, public-facing job none of them applied for.
    — Alli Kushner, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of taxes
Verb
  • So instead of getting magnesium that has been smelted via the Pidgeon process, Lola extracts the stuff from seawater via electrolysis, powered by solar.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026
  • Those contracts call for Next Hydrogen to design and deliver an electrolyzer that extracts tritium from heavy water, a critical process for preparing fuel used in future fusion reactors.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
Definition of extracts
Verb
  • The law imposes a set of strict requirements designed to keep internet users safe online.
    — Samuel Petrequin, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • Behind the scenes, Kalshi is advocating that more states find a middle ground, as North Carolina recently did, by passing a law that imposes a tax on prediction markets.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 17 July 2026
Definition of imposes
Verb
  • That ranking uses a similar methodology to the Billboard Global 200, but purposefully removes consumption from American listeners.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • This move removes Iran’s primary justification for disrupting shipping in the SOH and for attacking its neighbors.
    — Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of removes
Verb
  • Beyond the federal government, each state also levies their own separate gas taxes.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • Beyond the federal government, each state also levies their own separate gas taxes.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
Definition of levies
Verb
  • If a candidate withdraws after that July 13 deadline, the party does not have any way to nominate a replacement.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 6 July 2026
  • Al Gore, John McCain suspends his campaign for the Republican nomination for president, and Bill Bradley withdraws from the race for the Democratic nomination.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
Definition of withdraws
Verb
  • Generous leave policies frequently go underused, particularly by men, if workplace culture quietly penalizes those who take advantage of them.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 25 May 2026
  • The system rewards deference and penalizes the judgment oversight was designed to protect.
    — Tiffany Archer, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
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