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What (who) is collect taxes - definition
PERSON WHO COLLECTS TAXES
Tax collectors; Tax gatherer; Tax Collector; Exciseman; Collect taxes; Excise man; Tax-Gatherers; Tax man; Tax official; City Collector; Tax inspector; County tax collector; Tax commissioner; Tax-collector; Taxman (occupation)
collect
SHORT GENERAL PRAYER
Prayer of the Day; Collects; Opening Prayer (in the Mass); Collect prayer
(collects, collecting, collected)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
Two young girls were collecting firewood...
1.5 million signatures have been collected.
= gather
VERB: V n, V n
2.
If you collect things, such as stamps or books, as a hobby, you get a large number of them over a period of time because they interest you.
One of Tony's hobbies was collecting rare birds.
VERB: V n
• collecting
...hobbies like stamp collecting and fishing.
N-UNCOUNT: with supp, oft n N
3.
When you collect someone or something, you go and get them from the place where they are waiting for you or have been left for you. (BRIT; in AM, usually use pick up
)
)
David always collects Alistair from school on Wednesdays...
After collecting the cash, the kidnapper made his escape down the disused railway line.
= pick up
VERB: V n from n, V n
4.
If a substance collects somewhere, or if something collects it, it keeps arriving over a period of time and is held in that place or thing.
Methane gas does collect in the mines around here.
...water tanks which collect rainwater from the house roof.
VERB: V prep/adv, V n, also V
5.
If something collects light, energy, or heat, it attracts it.
Like a telescope it has a curved mirror to collect the sunlight.
VERB: V n
6.
If you collect for a charity or for a present for someone, you ask people to give you money for it.
Are you collecting for charity?...
They collected donations for a fund to help military families.
VERB: V for n, V n for n, also V n
7.
If you collect yourself or collect your thoughts, you make an effort to calm yourself or prepare yourself mentally.
She paused for a moment to collect herself...
He was grateful for a chance to relax and collect his thoughts.
= compose
VERB: V pron-refl, V n
8.
A collect call is a telephone call that is paid for by the person receiving it, not the person making it. (AM)
She received a collect phone call from Alaska.
ADJ: ADJ n
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If you call collect when you make a telephone call, the person who you are phoning pays the cost of the call and not you.
Should you lose your ticket call collect on STA's helpline.
PHRASE: V inflects
collect
SHORT GENERAL PRAYER
Prayer of the Day; Collects; Opening Prayer (in the Mass); Collect prayer
v. a.
1.
Gather, assemble, muster, bring together.
2.
Accumulate, amass, aggregate, garner, heap up, garner up, scrape together.
3.
(Rare.) Infer, deduce, argue, consider probable.
Exciseman
·noun An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty.
Wikipedia
Tax collector
A tax collector (also called a taxman) is a person who collects unpaid taxes from other people or corporations. The term could also be applied to those who audit tax returns. Tax collectors are often portrayed as being evil, and in the modern world share a similar stereotype to that of lawyers.
Examples of use of collect taxes
1. "A government that cannot legislate or collect taxes is not a government," he said.
2. She would cover the cost by toughening enforcement to collect taxes currently owed but not paid.
3. No one has come to collect taxes in more than a decade.
4. It has failed in attempts to collect taxes from other countries, including Hungary, Libya, Rwanda, Nigeria and Uganda.
5. Constitution authorized Congress "to lay and collect taxes on incomes." Congress passed such a tax later that year.