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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. 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."