Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A concession, grant, or privilege, particularly a commercial privilege, as an exclusive right of trade, conceded by government to a particular person or company.
  • noun A tax or duty levied at the gates of cities, particularly in France and certain other countries of the European continent, on articles brought in.
  • noun The barrier or place where such duties are levied and paid; also, the service by which they are collected.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.
  • noun A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun historical A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, such as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.
  • noun historical A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a tax on various goods brought into a town

Etymologies

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French octroi

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Examples

  • For, while the pressure _per capita_ of the octroi is much greater than it was in 1870, the actual receipts from the _octroi_ were less with a population of

    France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861

  • His education would have qualified him for any course of life; and he became an octroi-clerk -- [The octroi is the tax on provisions levied at the entrance of the town] -- in one of the little toll-houses at the entrance of his native town.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • The unfortunate householder, for example, who is persuaded to keep walking in the conservatory "pour retablir la circulation," and the other who describes himself "sous-chef de bureau dans l'enregistrement," and he who proposes to "faire hommage" of a doubtful turbot to the neighbouring "employe de l'octroi" -- these and all their like speak commonplaces so usual as to lose in their own country the perfection of their dulness.

    Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884

  • The unfortunate householder, for example, who is persuaded to keep walking in the conservatory "pour retablir la circulation," and the other who describes himself "sous-chef de bureau dans l'enregistrement," and he who proposes to "faire hommage" of a doubtful turbot to the neighbouring "employe de l'octroi" -- these and all their like speak commonplaces so usual as to lose in their own country the perfection of their dulness.

    The Spirit of Place and Other Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884

  • His education would have qualified him for any course of life; and he became an octroi-clerk -- [The octroi is the tax on provisions levied at the entrance of the town] -- in one of the little toll-houses at the entrance of his native town.

    An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Complete ��mile Souvestre 1830

  • These market dues still survive in the "octroi" collected at the gates of some European cities.

    Early European History Hutton Webster

  • The Municipal Council is negotiating with the Credit Foncier for the erection of a certain number of cheap houses, which, for the space of twenty years, will be exempt from all taxes, such as octroi, highway, door and window tax, etc.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various

  • They were at once presented with; the stamp-duty, registration, the lottery, the droits reunis, the tax on cards, and the 'octroi'.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • They were at once presented with; the stamp - duty, registration, the lottery, the droits reunis, the tax on cards, and the 'octroi'.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • They were at once presented with; the stamp-duty, registration, the lottery, the droits reunis, the tax on cards, and the 'octroi'.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

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