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his jaw goes taut like that I know he's angry. 2 Nautical neat,
tidy, Bristol fashion, shipshape, spruce, (in) trim, smart,
orderly, well-organized; well-disciplined: Captain Scriven runs
a taut ship, no doubt about it.
tautology n. repetition, redundancy, battology, pleonasm, iteration,
tautologism; repetitiousness, repetitiveness, wordiness,
prolixity, verbiage, verbosity, long-windedness: Clich‚s like
'null and void' and 'cease and desist' are tautologies.
Tautology, when called 'repetition', is often used for
rhetorical effect.
tawdry adj. gaudy, cheap, flashy, brummagem, showy, meretricious,
garish, loud, tatty, tinsel, tinselly, plastic, tinny, shabby,
US tacky, Colloq cheapjack: She was wearing a tawdry outfit
picked up at a church jumble sale.
tax n. 1 levy, impost, duty, tariff, assessment, tribute, toll,
excise, customs, charge, contribution, Archaic scot, tithe, Brit
octroi, cess, rate(s), dues: Most people try to pay the lowest
taxes they can get away with. 2 onus, burden, weight, load,
encumbrance, strain, pressure: The admission of fifty new
children put a heavy tax on the school's resources.
--v. 3 assess, exact, demand, charge, impose or levy a tax
(on), Archaic tithe: If the government doesn't tax citizens,
where will the money come from? 4 burden, strain, put a strain
on, try; load, overload, stretch, exhaust; encumber, weigh down,
saddle, Brit pressurize, US pressure: This misbehaviour is
really taxing my patience. Our meagre resources were taxed to
the limit. Mother was taxed with the responsibility of caring
for us.
taxi n. 1 taxi-cub, cab, hackney, Colloq hack: Please hurry, as I
have a taxi waiting.
--v. 2 drive, ride (on the ground): After landing, the plane
taxied to the gate.
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