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cess

/ses/US // sɛs //UK // (sɛs) //

戒酒,戒酒会,储蓄,戒烟

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : British. a tax, assessment, or lien.
    • : a land tax.
    • : a military assessment.
    • : an import or sales tax on a commodity.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : British. to tax; assess.

Examples

  • He was to have all wardships and marriages, and the Dublin government was to have no power of imposing any cess or tax.

  • Further clauses indict the inferior ministers occupied about the cess.

  • The contention that cess was altogether illegal did not recommend itself to the Queen or her Ministers.

  • As for the cess, money must be had somehow, for he had been forced to spend largely on the repair of Limerick Castle.

  • The word leve or leave has very much the same signification as the word cense or cess.