taxgatherer

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noun

One who collects taxes or revenues; a tax collector.

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Meanings

nountaxgatherer (plural taxgatherers)

plural taxgatherers

  1. datedOne who collects taxes or revenues; a tax collector.

    Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga - perhaps too much dice, you know - coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes.

    1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196

Origin

From tax + gatherer.

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