"poll tax" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: poll taxes [plural], poll-tax [alternative]
Etymology: From sense poll (“head”) for “uniform tax per individual”; from sense poll (“voting place”) for “tax required to vote”. Head templates: {{en-noun}} poll tax (plural poll taxes)
  1. A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual. Translations (uniform tax per individual): поголовен данък (pogoloven danăk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), capitació [feminine] (Catalan), 人頭稅 /人头税 (réntóushuì) (Chinese Mandarin), kopskat [common-gender, historical] (Danish), personele belasting (Dutch), henkiraha (Finnish), henkivero (Finnish), capitation [feminine] (French), Kopfsteuer [feminine] (German), Gemeindesteuer [feminine] (German), χαράτσι (charátsi) [neuter] (Greek), מַס גָּלְגֹּלֶת (mas golgólet) [masculine] (Hebrew), fejadó (Hungarian), ceannairgead [masculine] (Irish), capitazione [feminine] (Italian), خراج (harac) (Ottoman Turkish), podatek pogłówny [masculine] (Polish), capitação [feminine] (Portuguese), impuesto de capitación (Spanish), impuesto electoral (Spanish), capitación (Spanish), தலைவரி (talaivari) (Tamil), ஆள்வரி (āḷvari) (Tamil), sưu (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-poll_tax-en-noun-rHScXV~K Categories (other): Taxation Disambiguation of Taxation: 50 50 Disambiguation of 'uniform tax per individual': 89 11
  2. (US) A tax that must be paid in order to vote. Tags: US
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: capitation, head money, head tax

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.