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poll tax

noun

Etymology

From sense poll (“head”) for “uniform tax per individual”; from sense poll (“voting place”) for “tax required to vote”.

Definitions

A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual.
A tax that must be paid in order to vote.

The neighborhood

synonymcapitation
synonymhead money
synonymhead tax

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA