excise (n.)

  1. a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)

    [ Syn: excise tax ]

    excise (v.)

  1. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; Please strike this remark from the record; scratch that remark

    [ Syn: strike , scratch , expunge ]

  2. levy an excise tax on

  3. remove by cutting; The surgeon excised the tumor'

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