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• tax farmer — noun (esp historical) A tax gatherer who pays a fixed sum for the right to collect taxes, retaining the revenue as income • • • Main Entry: ↑tax * * * tax farmer, (formerly) a person who bought from his government the privilege of being tax… …   Useful english dictionary

• farmer — Synonyms and related words: Bauer, Internal Revenue Service, accumulator, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, assessor, bill collector, boor, bucolic, bumpkin, clod, clodhopper, clown, coffee planter, collection agent,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• tax collector — Synonyms and related words: Internal Revenue Service, accumulator, assessor, bill collector, collection agent, collector, connoisseur, customhouse, customs, douanier, dunner, exciseman, farmer, gatherer, magpie, miser, pack rat, publican,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• TAX GATHERERS — In Jewish history in the period of Roman rule two categories should be distinguished under this heading: (1) mokhesim, farmers general (see publicani), by preference of the equestrian order, and (2) gabba im, their agents employed in collecting… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Tax — Tax, n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch. See {Tangent}, and cf. {Task}, {Taste}.] 1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Tax cart — Tax Tax, n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch. See {Tangent}, and cf. {Task}, {Taste}.] 1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Tax incidence — In economics, tax incidence is the analysis of the effect of a particular tax on the distribution of economic welfare. Tax incidence is said to fall upon the group that, at the end of the day, bears the burden of the tax. The key concept is that… …   Wikipedia

• Farmer — This article is about the occupation. For the last name, see Farmer (surname). Farmers redirects here. For other uses, see Farmers (disambiguation). Farmer Eastern Eu …   Wikipedia

• Farmer's Law — ▪ Byzantine legal code Latin  Leges Rusticae        Byzantine legal code drawn up in the 8th century AD, probably during the reign of Emperor Leo III the Isaurian (717–741), which focused largely on matters concerning the peasantry and the… …   Universalium

• farmer — n. 1. Agriculturist, husbandman, cultivator or tiller of the soil. 2. Collector, tax gatherer; lessee of taxes, customs, etc …   New dictionary of synonyms

• farmer — n 1. agriculturalist, agronomist, granger, yeoman, landsman, husbandman; plowman, plowboy, sodbuster, chuff, gaffer, swain, kerne, son or tiller of the soil, (in Egypt) fellah, (in Russia) muzhik, (in Spanish America and Southwestern U.S.) peon,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder