stamp duty

1. 1.

   a tax collected by requiring a stamp to be purchased and attached (usually on documents or publications)

   Synonymsstamp tax

   Broadertax

Questions about stamp duty

What does stamp duty mean?

stamp duty means "a tax collected by requiring a stamp to be purchased and attached (usually on documents or publications)".

What is another word for stamp duty?

Close synonyms include stamp tax. 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 stamp duty a common word?

stamp duty 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.