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carbon tax

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English

Syllables
car-bon -tax
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tax levied on the carbon contents used by the burning fossil fuels, so as to discourage the production of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

carbon taxes (plural)

Phrases

carbon cost carbon footprint carbon emissions trading carbon market cap and trade

Frequently Paired Words

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Questions

What does carbon tax mean?
A tax levied on the carbon contents used by the burning fossil fuels, so as to discourage the production of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

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