INHERITANCE TAX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inheritance tax mean? 

• INHERITANCE TAX (noun)
  The noun INHERITANCE TAX has 1 sense:

1. a tax on the estate of the deceased person

  Familiarity information: INHERITANCE TAX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INHERITANCE TAX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tax on the estate of the deceased person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

death duty; death tax; estate tax; inheritance tax

Hypernyms ("inheritance tax" is a kind of...):

transfer tax (any tax levied on the passing of title to property)