1. A tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
   "The government raised the excise tax on cigarettes to discourage smoking";
   - excise tax

1. Remove by cutting
   "The surgeon excised the tumour"
    
2. Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
   "Please excise this remark from the record";
   - strike, scratch, expunge
    
3. Levy an excise tax on
   "The government excised luxury goods to increase revenue"

Derived forms: excising, excises, excised

Type of: cancel, cut out, delete, exscind, indirect tax, tax

Encyclopedia: Excise, Overhead, Handling