ESTATE TAX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does estate tax mean? 

• ESTATE TAX (noun)
  The noun ESTATE TAX has 1 sense:

1. a tax on the estate of the deceased person

  Familiarity information: ESTATE TAX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESTATE TAX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tax on the estate of the deceased person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

death duty; death tax; estate tax; inheritance tax

Hypernyms ("estate tax" is a kind of...):

transfer tax (any tax levied on the passing of title to property)