noun charge; censure.
2. tax ·noun a lesson to be learned; a task.
3. tax ·noun a charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
4. tax ·noun a sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
5. tax ·noun a disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
6. tax ·noun a charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
7. tax ·noun to assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
8. tax ·noun a task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
9. tax ·noun to subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
10. tax ·noun especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, ·etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
11. tax ·noun to charge; to accuse; also, to censure;
often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.