different between excise vs tariff

English

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).

Alternative forms

• excize (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??k?sa?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Noun

excise (countable and uncountable, plural excises)

1. A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
   • 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “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, Samuel Johnson, 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, Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 8,

     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

Translations

Verb

excise (third-person singular simple present excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)

1. To impose an excise tax on something.

Etymology 2

From French exciser, from Latin excisus, past participle of exc?d? (“cut out”), from ex (“out of, from”) + caed? (“cut”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k?sa?z/, /?k?sa?z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?sa?z/

Verb

excise (third-person singular simple present excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)

1. To cut out; to remove.
   • 1901, Andrew Lang, 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, Ann Rule, page 442 of Small Sacrifices,

     Insanity can be cured. Personality disorders are so inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them.

Related terms

• excision

Translations

French

Verb

excise

1. first-person singular present indicative of exciser
2. third-person singular present indicative of exciser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of exciser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of exciser
5. second-person singular imperative of exciser

Latin

Participle

exc?se

1. vocative masculine singular of exc?sus

English

Etymology

From French tarif, from Italian tariffa, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (ta'rife), from Persian ?????? (ta'refe), from Arabic ?????????? (ta?rifa, “tariff, rate”), from the root ? ? ?? (?-r-f).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, NYC) IPA^(key): /?tæ??f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t???f/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?tæ??f/

Noun

tariff (plural tariffs)

1. A system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves.
2. A schedule of rates, fees or prices.
3. (Britain) A sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime.

Derived terms

• non-tariff, nontariff
• tariff barrier
• tariffless

Translations

Verb

tariff (third-person singular simple present tariffs, present participle tariffing, simple past and past participle tariffed)

1. (transitive) to levy a duty on (something)

Translations

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Tarif, from Italian tariffa, from Arabic ????????? (ta?r?f)

Noun

tariff m (definite singular tariffen, indefinite plural tariffer, definite plural tariffene)

1. tariff, scale, table of rates or charges
2. wage scale, wage agreement

Derived terms

• tariffavtale

References

• “tariff” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Tarif, from Italian tariffa, from Arabic ????????? (ta?r?f)

Noun

tariff m (definite singular tariffen, indefinite plural tariffar, definite plural tariffane)

1. tariff, scale, table of rates or charges
2. wage scale, wage agreement

Derived terms

• tariffavtale

References

• “tariff” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.