I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Customs and Excise
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
duty
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Brewers pay tax - excise duty - on the gravity.
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These benefits have been realised despite heavy excise duty discrimination against spirits in favour of beers and wines, both at home and abroad.
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These prices excluded additional excise duties .
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The 0.8 p.c. rise in the index between the two months was largely due to changes in excise duty in the Budget.
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The abolition of excise duty in 1853 heralded a period of growth and prosperity for the soap industry.
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Mr Major resisted the temptation to leave some excise duties unchanged in order to hold down the inflation rate.
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For all Member States the excise duty for spirits is above that for both wines and beers.
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The present one left vehicle excise duties at £100, unchanged for the fifth year running.
licence
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If the stamped-in number is too hard to find, check the registration number against the excise licence .
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Traffic wardens can also become involved with this offence by detecting a vehicle not displaying a current excise licence .
officer
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The excise officer measures the amount of fermentable material - malt and other sugars - in the wort.
tax
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Two years later, under Reitern, the decision was taken to replace the vodka farm with an excise tax .
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The excise tax , a provision in the bill, will go into effect seven days later.
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It is impossible to say when Congress may re-enact the excise tax .
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Excise taxes Commodity or consumption taxes may take the form of sales taxes or excise taxes.
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Delta Air Lines says it is no longer processing airline excise tax refunds for people who bought tickets with a credit card.
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Net national product exceeds national income by the amount of indirect business taxes-sales and excise taxes , primarily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Chris Luby by day is a customs and excise inspector, by night a Human Aeroplane.
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Delta Air Lines says it is no longer processing airline excise tax refunds for people who bought tickets with a credit card.
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If the stamped-in number is too hard to find, check the registration number against the excise licence.
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It is impossible to say when Congress may re-enact the excise tax.
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The 0.8 p.c. rise in the index between the two months was largely due to changes in excise duty in the Budget.
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With many excises however, modest price increases have little or 00 effect on sales.
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Within alcoholic drinks, excise duty revenue from spirits is declining, as its market share falls.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Offensive scenes were excised from the film.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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C, the petiole of the cotyledon was chilled as in B, and the cotyledon was then excised.
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From the point of view of the present, the past has to be excised.
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It was as if the operation had excised her will to live.
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Now he could no more excise it from his brain cells than he could sever his past from his future.
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That homosexuality has been excised as an official disease state is certainly good news.
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The audio is livelier than the hard-copy edition, which is so slim that little was excised for the audio presentation.
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The television age has transformed the conventions into presentational exercises from which the unknown and unexpected are ruthlessly excised.
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Therefore, to excise it would not imply any reversal of Britain's opt-out.