Main entry: excise, excise tax
Definition: a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
Main entry: excise
Definition: remove by cutting
Usage: The surgeon excised the tumor
Main entry: scratch, strike, excise, expunge
Definition: remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
Usage: Please strike this remark from the record; scratch that remark
Main entry: excise
Definition: levy an excise tax on