TAX LIEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tax lien mean? 

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

1. lien of which a tax collector may avail himself in default of taxes (analogous to a judgment lien)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAX LIEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lien of which a tax collector may avail himself in default of taxes (analogous to a judgment lien)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

lien (the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tax lien"):

federal tax lien (lien of the United States on all property of a taxpayer who fails to pay the federal government the taxes for which he or she is liable)

state tax lien (a lien on the property of a taxpayer that the tax collector can use upon default of payment of taxes)