[ˈɛksʌɪz], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a tax levied on certain goods and commodities produced or sold within a country and on licences granted for certain activities
(e.g: the rate of excise duty on spirits)


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Origin:
late 15th century (in the general sense ‘a tax or toll’): from Middle Dutch excijs, accijs, perhaps based on Latin accensare ‘to tax’, from ad- ‘to’ + census ‘tax’ (see census)

[ˈɛksʌɪz], (Verb)

Definitions:
- charge excise on (goods)


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Origin:
late 15th century (in the general sense ‘a tax or toll’): from Middle Dutch excijs, accijs, perhaps based on Latin accensare ‘to tax’, from ad- ‘to’ + census ‘tax’ (see census)

[ɛkˈsʌɪz], (Verb)

Definitions:
- cut out surgically
(e.g: the precision with which surgeons can excise brain tumours)


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Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘notch or hollow out’): from Latin excis- ‘cut out’, from the verb excidere, from ex- ‘out of’ + caedere ‘to cut’