"poll tax" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: poll taxes [plural]
Etymology: From sense poll (“head”) for “uniform tax per individual”; from sense poll (“voting place”) for “tax required to vote”. Etymology templates: {{m|en|poll||head}} poll (“head”), {{m|en|poll||voting place}} poll (“voting place”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} poll tax (plural poll taxes)
  1. A tax determined as a uniform, fixed amount per individual. Categories (topical): Taxation Translations (uniform tax per individual): поголовен данък (pogoloven danǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), capitació [feminine] (Catalan), 人頭稅 (Chinese Mandarin), 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), fejadó (Hungarian), ceannairgead [masculine] (Irish), capitazione [feminine] (Italian), podatek pogłówny [masculine] (Polish), capitação [feminine] (Portuguese), impuesto de capitación (Spanish), impuesto electoral (Spanish), capitación (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-poll_tax-en-noun-rHScXV~K Disambiguation of Taxation: 60 40 Disambiguation of 'uniform tax per individual': 86 14
  2. (US) A tax that must be paid in order to vote. Tags: US
    Sense id: en-poll_tax-en-noun-0uh2uQ7m Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 31 69 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: poll-tax, capitation, head money, head tax

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