educational visit
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An official visit by a government representative to a person or company registered for VAT (value added tax) to ensure they understand their tax obligations.
British usage
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see educational, visit.
Example Sentences
- "The purpose of an educational visit was to tell the trader what the tax was and what he had to do […]"
- "In practice, this is not always possible, but an educational visit should be paid to every trader not later than six months after VAT starts."
- "Nor can they expect to rely on the lack of an educational visit from an officer of Customs and Excise. If everyone were able to rely on that it would be too easy a way out of getting the tax return wrong."
- "The pupils were taken on an educational visit to the science museum."
Usage
- British usage