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Tax is a related term of inconvenience.


As nouns the difference between tax and inconvenience

is that tax is money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services while inconvenience is the quality of being inconvenient.

As verbs the difference between tax and inconvenience

is that tax is to impose and collect a tax from (a person) while inconvenience is to bother; to discomfort.

tax

English

(wikipedia tax)

Noun

  • Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
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  • A burdensome demand.
    • a heavy tax on time or health
  • A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
  • (obsolete) charge; censure
    • (Clarendon)
  • (obsolete) A lesson to be learned.
    • (Johnson)

    Synonyms

    * (money paid to government) impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment. exaction, custom, demand, levy

    Antonyms

    * (money paid to government) subsidy

    Hyponyms

    (types of taxes) * church tax * corporation tax * duty * estate tax * excise * excise tax * gift tax * goods and services tax * gross receipts tax * head tax * income tax * inheritance tax * land tax * poll tax * property tax * personal property tax * real property tax * sales tax * sin tax * sumptuary tax * transfer tax * use tax * utilities tax * value added tax

    Coordinate terms

    (other government revenues) * fine * license fee * penalty * seignorage * user charge

    Derived terms

    * tax collector * tax haven * tax hike * taxman * tax free * tax rise * taxes due * taxpayer

    Verb

    (es)
  • To impose and collect a tax from (a person).
    • Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
  • To impose and collect a tax on (something).
    • Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
  • To make excessive demands on.
  • * Do not tax my patience.
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    • Derived terms

    * taxable * taxation

    inconvenience

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being inconvenient.
  • * Hooker
    • They plead against the inconvenience , not the unlawfulness, of ceremonies in burial.
  • Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
  • * Tillotson
    • Man is liable to a great many inconveniences .
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    Synonyms

    * (something inconvenient) annoyance, nuisance

    Verb

    (inconvenienc)
  • to bother; to discomfort

    • Synonyms

    * (obsolete) discommodate

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