[taks], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions
(e.g: higher taxes will dampen consumer spending)

- a strain or heavy demand
(e.g: a heavy tax on the reader's attention)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘estimate or determine the amount of a penalty or damages’, surviving in tax): from Old French taxer, from Latin taxare ‘to censure, charge, compute’, perhaps from Greek tassein ‘fix’

[taks], (Verb)

Definitions:
- impose a tax on (someone or something)
(e.g: the income will be taxed at the top rate)

- make heavy demands on (someone's powers or resources)
(e.g: she knew that the ordeal to come must tax all her strength)

- confront (someone) with a fault or wrongdoing
(e.g: why are you taxing me with these preposterous allegations?)

- examine and assess (the costs of a case)
(e.g: an officer taxing a bill of costs)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘estimate or determine the amount of a penalty or damages’, surviving in tax): from Old French taxer, from Latin taxare ‘to censure, charge, compute’, perhaps from Greek tassein ‘fix’