exciseman

Questions about exciseman

What does exciseman mean?

exciseman means "someone who collects taxes for the government".

How many syllables are in exciseman?

exciseman has 4 syllables and divides as ex-ci-se-man under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for exciseman?

Close synonyms include tax collector, taxman, collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is exciseman a common word?

exciseman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.