alcabala — meaning in English
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English meaning
- checkpoint noun A location where people or vehicles are stopped for inspection, such as at a border or on a road.
- tax noun Money that a government requires people or businesses to pay, used to fund public services.
Senses
alcabala is used for these senses in English:
- checkpoint A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.
- tax Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
checkpoint — full definition
- noun A location where people or vehicles are stopped for inspection, such as at a border or on a road.
- noun In a video game, a saved point that a player can restart from after failing.
- noun A point at which the state of a system or database is saved so it can be restored later.
tax — full definition
- noun Money that a government requires people or businesses to pay, used to fund public services.
- verb To require someone to pay tax, or to charge tax on something.
- verb To place a heavy strain or demand on something.