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Definition of excise

a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"
remove by erasing or crossing out; "Please strike this remark from the record"
levy an excise tax on

Similar Words: excise tax, strike, expunge

Hyponyms: sales tax, nuisance tax, VAT, value-added tax, ad valorem tax, gasoline tax

Derivational Morphology: ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision, deletion, cut, expunction, expunging, erasure, excise tax

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