Tax vs Tickets - What's the difference?
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Money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services.
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, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
A burdensome demand.
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
(obsolete) A lesson to be learned.
To impose and collect a tax from (a person).
To impose and collect a tax on (something).
To make excessive demands on.
* Do not tax my patience.
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Not formal or ceremonious.
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Suited for everyday use.
(of language) Reflecting everyday, non-ceremonious usage.
(gardening) Not organized; not structured or planned.
As nouns the difference between tax and tickets
is that tax is money paid to the government other than for transaction-specific goods and services while tickets is .As a verb tax
is to impose and collect a tax from (a person).tax
English
(wikipedia tax)Noun
citation, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax . The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
- a heavy tax on time or health
- (Clarendon)
- (Johnson)
Synonyms
* (money paid to government) impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment. exaction, custom, demand, levyAntonyms
* (money paid to government) subsidyHyponyms
(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 taxCoordinate terms
(other government revenues) * fine * license fee * penalty * seignorage * user chargeDerived terms
* tax collector * tax haven * tax hike * taxman * tax free * tax rise * taxes due * taxpayerVerb
(es)- Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
- Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
Derived terms
* taxable * taxationtickets
English
Noun
(head)Synonyms
* tix (informal) ----informal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}