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Another word for dues

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Noun
      1. The act of protecting.
      2. The condition of being protected.
      3. One that protects:
      1. A sharp reaction; a repercussion.
      2. A return of a percentage of a sum of money already received, typically as a result of pressure, coercion, or a secret agreement.
      1. The stake that each poker player must put into the pool before receiving a hand or before receiving new cards.
      2. A price to be paid, especially as one's share; cost:
      3. To put (one's stake) into the pool in poker.
      1. plural form of rate
      2. (British or Australian) Taxes, usually on property, levelled by local government.
      1. A contribution for the support of a government required of persons, groups, or businesses within the domain of that government.
      2. A fee or dues levied on the members of an organization to meet its expenses.
      3. A burdensome or excessive demand; a strain.
      1. The act of assessing; appraisal.
      2. An amount assessed, as for taxation.
      1. A purchase made by signed order, as for a periodical for a specified period of time or for a series of performances.
      2. An agreement to receive or be given access to electronic texts or services, especially over the Internet.
      3. Acceptance, as of articles of faith, demonstrated by the signing of one's name.
      1. plural form of charge
      2. third-person singular simple present indicative form of charge
      1. To impose (a tax or fine, for example) on someone.
      2. To impose a tax, fine, or other punishment on (a person or business).
      3. To enlist or conscript into military service:
      1. An act or a course of action that is required of one by position, social custom, law, or religion:
      2. Required action or service:
      3. Active military service:
      1. A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
      2. A charge for a service, such as a telephone call to another country.
      3. An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property:
      1. A social, legal, or moral requirement, such as a duty, contract, or promise, that compels one to follow or avoid a particular course of action:
      2. The constraining power of a promise, contract, law, or sense of duty:
      3. A document in which a person binds himself or herself to undertake or refrain from doing a particular act.
      1. The act of contributing.
      2. Something contributed.
      3. A payment exacted for a special purpose; an impost or a levy.
      1. A fixed sum charged, as by an institution or by law, for a privilege:
      2. A charge for professional services:
      3. A tip; a gratuity.
    See also:

    tax

    pay

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Sentence Examples

  • He had his own royal estates, his private property and dues from all his subjects.

  • The state demanded men for the army and the corvee as well as dues in kind.

  • But in communes the revenues of which exceed 120,000, the budget is always submitted to the president of the republic. The ordinary revenues include the produce of additional centimes allocated to communal purposes, the rents and profits of communal property, sums produced by municipal taxes and dues, concessions to gas, water and other companies, and by the octroi or duty on a variety of articles imported into the commune for local consumption.

  • In return they usually had a house near the episcopal palace, a domain within and without the city, and sometimes the right to levy certain dues on the city.

  • In no case could the rent or the labour dues be increased.

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