Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A collector of taxes.

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

  • noun One who collects taxes or revenues.

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  • noun One who collects taxes or revenues; a tax collector.

Etymologies

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tax +‎ gatherer

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Examples

  • Saint Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a taxgatherer, was called by our Saviour to the Apostleship: in that profession his name is Levi.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision

  • Saint Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a taxgatherer, was called by our Saviour to the Apostleship: in that profession his name is Levi.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

  • Saint Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a taxgatherer, was called by our Saviour to the Apostleship: in that profession his name is Levi.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • Saint Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a taxgatherer, was called by our Saviour to the Apostleship: in that profession his name is Levi.

    The Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Anonymous 1610

  • No taxgatherer in the British Dominions — that wide – spread territory on which the sun never sets, and where the tax – gatherer never goes to bed — was more regular and persevering in his calls than

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • The grim janitor relented at the touch of my money, which he took with all the indifference of a taxgatherer, and showed me into a parlour, where, he said, I might amuse myself till such time as his lord should be awake.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid chiefly by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States?

    Thomas Jefferson: Second Inaugural Address 1989

  • In truth, it may be said that nature is our taxgatherer, levying by her immutable laws tribute from the banks of rivers and from the summits of mountains thousands of miles distant to enrich, improve, and adorn our favored city. '

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid chiefly by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States?

    US Presidential Inaugural Addresses Various

  • "Besides, the best people in Jerusalem might hold it against him that he was a taxgatherer," added James, without thinking how his words sounded.

    Men Called Him Master

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