taxation
/tækˈseɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Some of this will be down to breakthrough science and technology, breakthrough business models and breakthroughs in behaviour change, but we also need an intensifying focus on public policy, in areas like accounting, reporting and taxation, the last spotlighted by Shaxson."
- "Less than one-tenth of the taxation is spent on public improvements of any kind […]"
Etymology
From Middle English taxacioun, from Anglo-Norman taxacion, from Latin taxātio (“rating, appraisal”). By surface analysis, tax + -ation.