What does tax-increase mean?

tax-increase means "the amount by which taxes are increased".

How many syllables are in tax-increase?

tax-increase has 4 syllables and divides as tax--in-cre-ase 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 tax-increase?

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

tax-increase 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.

Tax-increase — meaning, 2 synonyms and examples

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
the amount by which taxes are increased
“a tax increase of 15 percent”
Synonymstax boost tax hike
Broaderincrease

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What does tax-increase mean?: tax-increase means "the amount by which taxes are increased".
How many syllables are in tax-increase?: tax-increase has 4 syllables and divides as tax--in-cre-ase 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.

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