taxgatherer
/taks-gath-er-er/US // ˈtæksˌgæð ər ər //
征税人,收税员,收税人,税官
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a person who collects taxes.
Examples
He was a taxgatherer, as Matthew once had been, and had grown rich collecting taxes.
Even the taxgatherer, who was stout, and wore spectacles and a broadbrimmed hat, had the taxes handed through the grating.
They are merchants, and among them are a taxgatherer and one who dealeth in slaves.
It was the Chancellor who by his attacks on property, adopted "the methods of the Eastern taxgatherer."
The existing system of rating adopted "the methods of the Eastern taxgatherer."
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