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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tariff has 1 sense
- tariff(n = noun.possession) duty - a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries" is a kind of indirect tax
has particulars: custom, customs, customs duty, impost, tonnage, tonnage duty, tunnage, octroi, revenue tariff, protective tariff, import duty, export duty, countervailing duty
Derived form verb tariff1
Verb tariff has 1 sense
- tariff(v = verb.possession) - charge a tariff; "tariff imported goods" is one way to tax
Derived form noun tariff1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833). [1913 Webster]" The United States and Great Britain impose no duties on exports; hence, in these countries the
tariff refers only to imports." [1913 Webster]" A tariff may be imposed solely for, and with reference to, the production of revenue (called arevenue tariff, or tariff for revenue, or for the artificial fostering of home industries ( a projective tariff), or as a means of coercing foreign governments, as in case of retaliatory tariff." [Webster 1913 Suppl.] - The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound. [1913 Webster]
- Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares. Bolingbroke. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
--n.
1 a table of fixed charges (a hotel tariff).
2 a a duty on a particular class of imports or exports. b a list of duties or customs to be paid.
3 standard charges agreed between insurers etc.
--v.tr. subject (goods) to a tariff.
DEVIL DICTIONARY
tariff
n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
The Enemy of Human Souls
Sat grieving at the cost of coals;
For Hell had been annexed of late,
And was a sovereign Southern State.
"It were no more than right," said he,
"That I should get my fuel free.
The duty, neither just nor wise,
Compels me to economize --
Whereby my broilers, every one,
Are execrably underdone.
What would they have? -- although I yearn
To do them nicely to a turn,
I can't afford an honest heat.
This tariff makes even devils cheat!
I'm ruined, and my humble trade
All rascals may at will invade:
Beneath my nose the public press
Outdoes me in sulphureousness;
The bar ingeniously applies
To my undoing my own lies;
My medicines the doctors use
(Albeit vainly) to refuse
To me my fair and rightful prey
And keep their own in shape to pay;
The preachers by example teach
What, scorning to perform, I teach;
And statesmen, aping me, all make
More promises than they can break.
Against such competition I
Lift up a disregarded cry.
Since all ignore my just complaint,
By Hokey-Pokey! I'll turn saint!"
Now, the Republicans, who all
Are saints, began at once to bawl
Against _his_ competition; so
There was a devil of a go!
They locked horns with him, tete-a-tete
In acrimonious debate,
Till Democrats, forlorn and lone,
Had hopes of coming by their own.
That evil to avert, in haste
The two belligerents embraced;
But since 'twere wicked to relax
A tittle of the Sacred Tax,
'Twas finally agreed to grant
The bold Insurgent-protestant
A bounty on each soul that fell
Into his ineffectual Hell.
Edam Smith