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say it: TER-uhf
tariff is a noun and verb meaning "a government tax on imports or exports". It is pronounced /ˈtɛɹəf/ — TER-uhf. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a government tax on imports or exports
“they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tariff come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.