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Definitions for Excise

[1] an internal tax or duty on certain commodities, as liquor or tobacco, levied on their manufacture, sale, or consumption within the country.
[2] a tax levied for a license to carry on certain employments, pursue certain sports, etc.
[3] British . the branch of the civil service that collects excise taxes.
[4] to impose an excise on.
[5] to expunge, as a passage or sentence, from a text.
[6] to cut out or off, as a tumor.
[7] Also called: excise tax a tax on goods, such as spirits, produced for the home market
[8] a tax paid for a licence to carry out various trades, sports, etc
[9] British that section of the government service responsible for the collection of excise, now part of HMRC
[10] to delete (a passage, sentence, etc); expunge
[11] to remove (an organ, structure, or part) surgically

Words related to Excise

tariff, surcharge, expunge, edit, exterminate, eradicate, duty, levy, toll, customs, trim, cut, gut, elide, launder, erase, extirpate, slash, amputate, strike

Words nearby Excise

excipient, exciple, excipulum, excircle, excisable, excise, excise tax, exciseman, excision, excision biopsy, excitability

Origin of Excise

21570–80; < Latin excīsus cut out, hewn down, past participle of excīdere to excide

Other words from Excise

ex·cis·a·ble , adjective

Word origin for Excise

C16: from Latin excīdere to cut down; see excide

Synonyms for Excise

surcharge, tariff, customs, duty, levy, toll, import tax