tax hike

1. 1.

   the amount by which taxes are increased

   “a tax increase of 15 percent”

   Synonymstax-increasetax boost

   Broaderincrease

Questions about tax hike

What does tax hike mean?

tax hike means "the amount by which taxes are increased".

What is another word for tax hike?

Close synonyms include tax-increase, tax boost. 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 tax hike a common word?

tax hike is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.