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taxpayer

[ taks-pey-er ]

/ ˈtæksˌpeɪ ər /

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noun

a person who pays a tax or is subject to taxation.

a temporary building that yields rent sufficient only to pay the taxes on the property on which it stands.

Origin of taxpayer

First recorded in 1810–20; tax + payer

OTHER WORDS FROM taxpayer

tax·pay·ing, noun

Words nearby taxpayer

taxo-, taxol, taxon, taxonomy, taxpaid, taxpayer, tay, tay-sachs disease, tayberry, taylor, taylor series

Example sentences from the Web for taxpayer

God help us, it all took place on our taxpayer dime, all in the name of defending the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

After Torture Report, Our Moral Authority As a Nation Is Gone |Nick Gillespie |December 11, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Mattson says the government bogarts this stuff, gathered at taxpayer expense, and maintains “a monopoly on the data.”

What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear |Doug Peacock |November 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Every “Good Kill,” or successfully dispatched militant, costs $68,000 in taxpayer dollars.

Ethan Hawke's 'Good Kill': A Searing Indictment of America's Drone Warfare Obsession |Marlow Stern |September 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
They had tanks and mortars and all sorts of armaments provided by the American taxpayer.

Iraq Is Vietnam 2.0 And U.S. Drones Won’t Solve The Problem |Leslie H. Gelb |June 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

It was his taxpayer dollars, after all, that had gone to funding these explicitly religious events.

Should Atheists Pay for a Prayer Day? A Nebraskan Town’s Crisis of Faith |Scott Bixby |May 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
It was said he had saved the taxpayer a million dollars during the first year of his administration.

Fragments of an Autobiography |Felix Moscheles
The pre-war standard is an alternative one at the option of the taxpayer.

The New Gresham Encyclopedia |Various
None can be sufficient in this case without levelling a finger at the taxpayer—nay, directly mentioning him.

Beauchamp's Career, Complete |George Meredith
Nothing consolidates the Republic so much as the uninjured powers of the taxpayer.'

The Letters of Cassiodorus |Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)
But I am not advocating tax reduction merely for the benefit of the taxpayer; I am advocating it for the benefit of the country.

State of the Union Addresses of Calvin Coolidge |Calvin Coolidge

British Dictionary definitions for taxpayer

taxpayer

/ (ˈtæksˌpeɪə) /

noun

a person or organization that pays taxes or is liable to taxation

Derived forms of taxpayer

taxpaying, adjective