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Income vs Excise - What's the difference?

income | excise |

As a noun income

is money]] one earns by working or by [[capitalise|capitalising on the work of others.

As a verb excise is

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income

English

(wikipedia income)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Money]] one earns by working or by [[capitalise, capitalising on the work of others.
  • *, chapter=23
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.}}
  • * 2010 Dec. 4, , " Why It’s Time to Worry", Newsweek (retrieved 16 June 2013):
  • In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income ; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
  • (label) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
  • * Bishop Rust
  • more abundant incomes of light and strength from God
    (Shakespeare)
  • A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
  • (label) An entrance-fee.
  • (label) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
  • * Chapman
  • I would then make in and steep / My income in their blood.
  • A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
  • That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
  • Anagrams

    *

    excise

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) excijs, altered under the influence of Latin .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia excise) (en noun)
  • A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
  • * 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
  • Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize , did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.
  • * 1755, , A Dictionary of the English Language , "excise",
  • A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.
  • * 1787, ,
  • The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises , to pay the debts of the United States;
    Synonyms
    * excise tax
    Derived terms
    * central excise * excise house * exciseman * unexcised

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To impose an excise tax on something.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) exciser, from (etyl) excisus, past participle of .

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To cut out; to remove.
  • * 1846 , William Youatt, The Dog ,
  • [T]hey [warts] may be lifted up with the forceps, and excised with a knife or scissors, and the wound touched with nitrate of silver.
  • * 1901, , Preface to the second edition of Myth, Ritual, and Religion ,
  • In revising the book I have excised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.
  • * 1987 , , page 442 of Small Sacrifices ,
  • Insanity]] can be cured. Personality disorders are so [[inextricable, inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them.
  • (rare) To perform certain types of female circumcision.