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VAT (vatted, vatting)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does VAT mean?
• VAT (noun)
The noun VAT has 2 senses:
1. a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production
2. a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
Familiarity information: VAT used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
ad valorem tax; value-added tax; VAT
Hypernyms ("VAT" is a kind of...):
excise; excise tax (a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
tub; vat
Hypernyms ("vat" is a kind of...):
vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vat"):
washtub (a tub in which clothes or linens can be washed)
Context examples
Yell, boys, that vas vat I wondered, when sudden I seed two legs a-stickin’ up out o’ the crowd a long vay off, just like these two vingers, d’ye see, and I knewed they vas Bob’s legs, seein’ that ’e ’ad kind o’ yellow small clothes vid blue ribbons—vich blue vas ’is colour—at the knee.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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