noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
inheritance tax (= tax paid on money, property etc that you receive from someone when they die )
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Inheritance tax applies to the total value of the deceased’s assets.
inheritance tax
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cultural
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They were unable to determine whether this risk profile reflected cultural inheritance or difficulty in becoming pregnant.
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She has no hidden political agenda, but she does challenge the cultural inheritance that would encourage her silence.
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Lay ideas and theories are seen to be the product of the individual's experiences and cultural inheritance or identity.
genetic
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If he did, the probability is that his genetic inheritance played its part somewhere along the line.
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I appreciate that scientists may believe our characteristics and tendencies are passed on by genetic inheritance .
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Likes and dislikes can not be put down to pure genetic inheritance alone.
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Temperament seems to be the result of three different factors - genetic inheritance , past experience and present environment.
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The evidence for genetic inheritance is much less strong for the less severe forms of depression.
■ NOUN
tax
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But the loudest gripes concerned my criticism of the legislation to phase out inheritance tax .
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The current form of death duty is called inheritance tax .
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Would there be any likelihood of a future charge under inheritance tax ?
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Property left to a surviving spouse remains, as before, free of inheritance tax .
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Thus inheritance tax is concerned with gratuitous transactions. 5.
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There was no thought in those days of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or of inheritance tax .
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If there is no issue, £125,000, free of inheritance tax .
■ VERB
receive
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We receive our inheritance in discrete particles.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Garth doesn't work; he just lives off his inheritance .
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our literary inheritance