Dictionary

taxing en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈtæksɪŋ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)).

Meanings

1. With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
2. Burdensome, difficult, exacting.
   • a taxing problem

Forms

Deriveds

untaxing · taxingness · taxingly · nontaxing

Synonyms

demanding · stiff

Translations (17)

fr éprouvant (exhausting, draining) · fi vaikea (burdensome, difficult) · bg изморителен (exhausting, draining) · bg труден (burdensome, difficult) · ga maslach (exhausting, draining) · hi बोझिल (burdensome, difficult) · uk висна́жливий (exhausting, draining) · uk тяжки́й (burdensome, difficult) · fi rasittava (burdensome, difficult) · fr exténuant (exhausting, draining) · fr épuisant (exhausting, draining) · bg тежък (exhausting, draining) · hi बोझिल (exhausting, draining) · uk важки́й (exhausting, draining) · fi uuvuttava (exhausting, draining) · fr ardu (burdensome, difficult) · uk складни́й (burdensome, difficult)

taxing en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtæksɪŋ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of imposing a tax.
   • January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]

Forms

Deriveds

taxing master

taxing en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈtæksɪŋ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)).

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of tax
   form of tax

Translations (3)

fi verottaminen (act) · fi veron määrääminen (act) · pl opodatkowanie (act)