CAPITAL GAINS TAX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capital gains tax mean? 

• CAPITAL GAINS TAX (noun)
  The noun CAPITAL GAINS TAX has 1 sense:

1. a tax on capital gains

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPITAL GAINS TAX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tax on capital gains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

he avoided the capital gains tax by short selling

Hypernyms ("capital gains tax" is a kind of...):

revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)