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TAXPAYER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does taxpayer mean?
• TAXPAYER (noun)
The noun TAXPAYER has 1 sense:
1. someone who pays taxes
Familiarity information: TAXPAYER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who pays taxes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("taxpayer" is a kind of...):
payer; remunerator (a person who pays money for something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "taxpayer"):
ratepayer (a person who pays local rates (especially a householder))
Context examples
The honest taxpayer and the politician, you know.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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