EXCISEMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exciseman mean? 

• EXCISEMAN (noun)
  The noun EXCISEMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who collects taxes for the government

  Familiarity information: EXCISEMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCISEMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who collects taxes for the government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

collector of internal revenue; exciseman; internal revenue agent; tax collector; taxman

Hypernyms ("exciseman" is a kind of...):

administrative official; bureaucrat (an official of a bureaucracy)

 Context examples 

I trust I rendered tolerably intelligible my appointment for the morning of this day week, at the house of public entertainment at Canterbury, where Mrs. Micawber and myself had once the honour of uniting our voices to yours, in the well-known strain of the Immortal exciseman nurtured beyond the Tweed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)