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"Taxeopoda":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an order of chiefly taxeopodous mammals comprising the Proboscidea, Condylarthra, Hyracoidea, and sometimes others":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek taxis arrangement, order, regularity (genitive taxe\u014ds ) + New Latin -poda":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cctaks\u0113\u02c8\u00e4p\u0259d\u0259"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124912",
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"tax":{
"antonyms":[
"strain",
"stretch",
"test",
"try"
],
"definitions":{
": a charge usually of money imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes":[],
": a heavy demand":[],
": a sum levied on members of an organization to defray expenses":[],
": arrangement":[
"tax eme",
"taxi dermy"
],
": to assess or determine judicially the amount of (costs in a court action)":[],
": to enter (a name) in a list":[
"there went out a decree \u2026 that all the world should be taxed",
"\u2014 Luke 2:1 (King James Version)"
],
": to levy a tax on":[],
": to make onerous and rigorous demands on":[
"the job taxed her strength"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The decision was made to raise taxes .",
"He was accused of evading taxes .",
"What was your income before taxes ",
"What is the amount of tax to be paid",
"What was your income before tax ",
"Verb",
"He believes in taxing the rich to give to the poor.",
"You are taxed according to your income.",
"puzzles that tax your brain",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In 2014, Diehl helped lead a successful ballot campaign that repealed part of a 2013 law that created increases in the state gas tax tied to the rate of inflation. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"With the price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. hovering around $5, President Joe Biden has attempted to take action by calling on Congress last week to enact a three-month pause on the federal gasoline tax . \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"Macron\u2019s government previously scrapped the housing tax as part of the same plan. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 28 June 2022",
"For a house valued at $1 million, the tax is $50 a year. \u2014 Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"The state tax is tied to inflation and set to increase Friday from around 36 cents to about 43 cents per gallon. \u2014 Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun , 27 June 2022",
"Last week, Biden called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 90 days and encouraged state governments to suspend their own gas taxes. \u2014 Ben Ritz, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Now, eight months later, there has been little progress on changing national laws to implement the tax . \u2014 Paul Hannon, WSJ , 26 June 2022",
"Should the Blazers land in the tax , the taxpayer mid-level exception will be about $6.2 million. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Researchers are drilling down into the ways life on a hotter planet will tax our bodies, and looking for protections that, unlike air-conditioning, don\u2019t make the problem worse. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Gabriela Bucher, the executive director of Oxfam International, told CNN Business at Davos this week that governments should tax wealth on the world's wealthiest people. \u2014 Ramishah Maruf, CNN , 27 May 2022",
"Government officials at both the state and federal levels have been trying for years to tax and spend their way to fiscal success. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Issue 4 was actually a charter amendment that would have raised the limit the city can tax property owners for fire department buildings, equipment and operations to 5.8 mills. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"Some thriving and happy European countries, Switzerland and Belgium among them, do not normally tax capital gains at all. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Currently, there are nine states that don't tax wages, ranging from Florida to New Hampshire. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Tax-cut proposals are a direct effort to compete with states that don't tax earnings, including Texas, Florida and Tennessee \u2014 places to which many young Mississippians are moving for fatter paychecks. \u2014 Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Netflix doesn\u2019t want to dismantle password-sharing completely, only to tax the practice. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 21 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek taxi- , from taxis":"Combining form",
"Middle English, to estimate, assess, tax, from Anglo-French taxer , from Medieval Latin taxare , from Latin, to feel, estimate, censure, frequentative of tangere to touch \u2014 more at tangent entry 2":"Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8taks"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"assessment",
"duty",
"imposition",
"impost",
"levy"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060605",
"type":[
"adjective",
"combining form",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
]
},
"tax fiddler":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a person who lies to avoid paying taxes":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140445",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"tax haven":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a place where people go to live and companies go to operate in order to avoid paying high taxes":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185951",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"tax-exempt":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": bearing interest that is free from federal or state income tax":[],
": exempted from a tax":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1923, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cctaks-ig-\u02c8zem(p)t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104703",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"tax-free":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": not taxed":[
"tax-free medical benefits"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-082306",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"taxeopodous":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": having each or most of the tarsal or carpal bones of one row articulating with only one bone of the other row":[
"\u2014 used especially of an ungulate mammal \u2014 opposed to diplarthrous"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"irregular from Greek taxis + English -podous":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111546",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"taxi":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to cause (an aircraft) to taxi":[],
": to go at low speed along the surface of the ground or water":[],
": to operate an aircraft on the ground under its own power":[],
": to ride in a taxicab":[
"taxied to the train station"
],
": to transport by or as if by taxi":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"We caught a taxi to the restaurant.",
"We went to the restaurant by taxi .",
"Verb",
"The plane taxied slowly to the runway.",
"The pilot taxied out to the runway.",
"The pilot taxied the plane out to the runway.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In the next scene, Allison arrives via taxi at her old house in Los Angeles. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
"After that, it will be expanded to cover ride-sharing services, carpools, and new mobility solutions that will appear, such as autonomous taxi drones. \u2014 Bernard Marr, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"Eduardo Conticello has had many near-misses with his taxi and would like to see scooters abolished completely. \u2014 Barbie Latza Nadeau With Hada Messia, CNN , 19 June 2022",
"The Gala Marty, Wendy, Jonah and Charlotte crawl out of the wreckage with barely a scratch, take a taxi home, get dressed up and attend a fancy gala celebrating the Byrde Family Foundation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
"Last month, Volocopter completed its first flight for a third vehicle, the VoloConnect\u2014its newest taxi that will be able to carry four passengers for up to 70 miles. \u2014 Jessica Mathews, Fortune , 7 June 2022",
"Sedans, SUVs and a blue taxi lined up along one Pudong district street that has a string of auto repair shops busy fixing flat tires and AC problems. \u2014 Rachel Liang, WSJ , 1 June 2022",
"Defense lawyers noted that Sussmann, who didn't testify, billed the taxi ride to the FBI building to his law firm at the time, Perkins Coie, rather than to the Clinton campaign. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"But Berkowitz noted that Sussmann billed his taxi ride to FBI headquarters for the meeting to his law firm, rather than the campaign. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 28 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The four crew members -- three paying passengers and a former NASA astronaut there to serve as commander -- taking part in the mission, dubbed Ax-1, will taxi to the ISS via SpaceX vehicles as part of the 10-day trip. \u2014 Catherine Thorbecke, CNN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"After that, aircraft will be able to taxi underneath the western skybridge, adding two extra miles of taxiway space to the airport. \u2014 Laura Ly, CNN , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Everybody at Uber/Lyft will have to taxi once a month. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"That gives it some mobility, but limits its ability to taxi around the ground. \u2014 J. George Gorant, Robb Report , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Indians use the fintech service to pay for a wide range of goods and services, from groceries to taxi fares to airline tickets. \u2014 Biman Mukherji, Fortune , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Only one engine was used to taxi along the runway for takeoff. \u2014 Eve Chen, USA TODAY , 16 Sep. 2021",
"Before that, the Internet established new networks of information which transformed daily activities from product shopping to business meetings to even taxi summoning. \u2014 Steve Tengler, Forbes , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Avery Lalor can taxi an airplane, take off, run radio communications, and navigate the skies using an aircraft\u2019s GPS system. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 13 July 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1911, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a":"Verb",
"circa 1907, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8tak-s\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"cab",
"hack",
"taxicab"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174658",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"taxi dance hall":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a dance hall catering to men and providing taxi dancers as partners":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-120518",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"taxiarch":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a commander of an ancient Greek taxis":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek taxiarchos, taxiarch\u0113s , from taxis + archos, -arch\u0113s -arch":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8taks\u0113\u02cc\u00e4rk"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130754",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"taxic":{
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"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or involving a taxis":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin tax is + English -ic":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8taksik"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-073157",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"taxicab":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an automobile that carries passengers for a fare usually determined by the distance traveled":[]
},
"examples":[
"took a taxicab to the airport",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The taxicab pulled to a stop in front of a white colonial residence in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. \u2014 Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"Early Wednesday morning, an armed California man was detained by police shortly after getting out of a taxicab in front of Kavanaugh\u2019s house. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 9 June 2022",
"Instead of following her on foot, Mr. Galella hailed a taxicab . \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"An Idaho man arrested this month is accused of shooting and killing an Anchorage taxicab driver in 1985. \u2014 Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Not long ago, on a busy road from the airport in a taxicab , my daughter and the driver watched in horror as a deer leapt in front of a large truck a couple of lanes over. \u2014 Natalie Angier, The New York Review of Books , 9 May 2019",
"Water taxis are part taxicab , part ferry, part tour boat and all fun. \u2014 Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Oct. 2021",
"The plan also includes $65 million in relief for the Big Apple's struggling taxicab industry, which faces stiff competition from rideshare companies like Lyft and Uber, and is comprised mostly of immigrants and people of color. \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Try to pay for a taxicab in Shanghai or Shenzhen with physical notes, and prepare for dirty looks. \u2014 Charlie Campbell, Time , 11 Aug. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1899, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"taxi meter cab":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8tak-s\u0113-\u02cckab"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"cab",
"hack",
"taxi"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185001",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"taxing":{
"antonyms":[
"light",
"nondemanding",
"unchallenging",
"undemanding"
],
"definitions":{
": onerous , wearing":[
"a taxing operatic role"
]
},
"examples":[
"The journey proved to be very taxing .",
"a very taxing workload that is taking a lot of time to finish",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s not a great head space in such a mentally taxing game, in which the space between the ears makes the difference between good players and great ones. \u2014 Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"While Myers gave up just four games to Long, her semifinal match Saturday morning was a bit more taxing . \u2014 Gabby Hajduk, The Indianapolis Star , 11 June 2022",
"The next matchup was far more taxing , as the Celtics fell behind the Bucks, three games to two, but rallied to win the series in seven games. \u2014 Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2022",
"McCullum has had plum T20 franchise gigs, including currently coaching Kolkata Knight Riders in the high-profile Indian Premier League, but the grind of international cricket will be far more taxing and a trickier challenge. \u2014 Tristan Lavalette, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Risky decision-making is a tall and taxing order, psychologically speaking. \u2014 Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a specific scene in this that must have been quite taxing . \u2014 Simon Thompson, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"Focusing on the financial impact of the decisions that must be made during a separation process is very difficult when the emotional impact of the situation is so taxing . \u2014 Kimberly R. Nelson, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Curling has one of the most taxing schedules of any sport at the Winter Games, with competitions stretching from Feb. 2 to Feb. 20 and with as many as three rounds of matches a day. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Feb. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1841, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8tak-si\u014b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"arduous",
"burdensome",
"challenging",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"killing",
"laborious",
"onerous",
"persnickety",
"toilsome"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065657",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"taxeme":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a minimum grammatical feature of selection (as the occurrence of the noun actor before -ess in actress ), of order (as the fact that actr- precedes -ess in actress ), of stress (as the occurrence of one main stress on the first syllable in actress ), of pitch (as the interrogative final pitch when Actress":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8tak\u02ccs\u0113m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"tax- + -eme":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143928"
},
"taxeater":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a person deriving support from public funds":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165527"
},
"tax disc":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small, round sticker placed on the window of a vehicle showing that a tax has been paid so that the vehicle may be used on roads":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-191832"
},
"tax stamp":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a stamp marked on or affixed to a taxable item as evidence that the tax has been paid":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Trevor Patton Crow was initially arrested on charges of first-degree possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to affix a tax stamp following a raid at his Tuscaloosa home on Tuesday. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 3 Mar. 2022",
"These guns do not require a special tax stamp to own. \u2014 The Editors, Outdoor Life , 30 Jan. 2019",
"Police had approached Garner on suspicion of selling cigarettes from packs without tax stamps . \u2014 Nicquel Terry Ellis, USA TODAY , 23 Dec. 2019",
"Terry Tucker, 58, of Rockford, Illinois, was charged with possession for sale and evasion of the state\u2019s drug tax stamp act. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 6 Nov. 2019",
"From the left cargo pocket of Garner\u2019s shorts, the officer pulled four packs of Newports, each with Virginia tax stamps on the bottom. \u2014 Wesley Lowery, Washington Post , 13 June 2019",
"Dawson is charged with trafficking in methamphetamine, reckless endangerment, attempting to elude, failure to affix tax stamp and giving a false address. \u2014 Carol Robinson, AL.com , 25 Sep. 2017",
"Patrick Jiron was taken into custody and booked on charges of possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver and having no drug tax stamp . \u2014 Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity , 10 Jan. 2018",
"Patrick Jiron was booked with possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver and having no drug tax stamp . \u2014 Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com , 22 Dec. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1929, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214025"
},
"tax exile":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a person who has moved from one country to another country in order to avoid paying taxes":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001111"
},
"tax shelter":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a strategy, investment, or tax code provision that reduces tax liability":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Like other types of IRA accounts, Ethereum in an IRA is a capital gains tax shelter . \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"The way to avoid this risk is to just make sure that there is some document that clearly transfers all the film rights back to the film company, and let the tax shelter promoter worry about any tax risks in doing so. \u2014 Schuyler Moore, Forbes , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Like other types of IRA accounts, Ethereum in an IRA is a capital gains tax shelter . \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Like other types of IRA accounts, Ethereum in an IRA is a capital gains tax shelter . \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Production investment was provided by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, RTE, Section 481, Vertigo Releasing, BCP, the Belgian tax shelter and Screen Ireland. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 20 May 2022",
"Like other types of IRA accounts, Ethereum in an IRA is a capital gains tax shelter . \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"The tax shelter last year was stripped from New York\u2019s tax code. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Like other types of IRA accounts, Ethereum in an IRA is a capital gains tax shelter . \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1952, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-050730"
},
"taxon":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a scientifically classified group or entity : a taxonomic unit (such as a genus or order) of any rank":[
"Like higher taxa , subspecies are also partly objective but partly based on human decision.",
"\u2014 Stephen Jay Gould",
"\u2026 we know from the fossil record that this is a relict taxon \u2026 originating 13 million years ago \u2026",
"\u2014 Bernard Wood et al."
],
": the name applied to a taxonomic group in a formal system of nomenclature":[
"The marine triclads are formally subsumed in the taxon Maricola \u2026",
"\u2014 Seth Tyler"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8tak-\u02ccs\u00e4n"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The semi-aquatic costs were driven solely by a single species, the yellow fever mosquito, reflecting the substantial human healthcare costs associated with this taxon , the authors note in the study. \u2014 Sahana Ghosh, Quartz , 10 May 2022",
"Failure to deposit a new taxon in two culture collections means researchers miss out on publication in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, ICSP\u2019s official journal, a prerequisite for validation. \u2014 Pratik Pawar, Science | AAAS , 20 Oct. 2020",
"One of the bite marks may be from an unusually large Allosaurus or a separate, large-bodied taxon such as Saurophaganax or Torvosaurus tanneri, which have been found in other parts of the Morrison Formation. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 27 May 2020",
"And depending on your view of mammalian evolution, the first taxon to develop diurnality was either the most common recent ancestor of all apes and monkeys or the most common recent ancestor of all\u2026 elephant shrews. \u2014 Diana Gitig, Ars Technica , 10 Nov. 2017",
"The rules for naming a new animal taxon are governed by the ICZN, while the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) governs plants. \u2014 Benjamin Jones, Smithsonian , 7 Sep. 2017",
"Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa . \u2014 Jess Mcnally, WIRED , 28 July 2010"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from German Taxon, extracted from Taxonomie taxonomy , with -on functioning as a suffix, based on the Greek neuter noun and participle ending \u2014 more at -on entry 2":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1929, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-061538"
},
"taxus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": yew sense 1a":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8tak-s\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, genus comprising the yews, from Latin, yew":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1945, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-064038"
},
"taxonomy":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"tak-\u02c8s\u00e4-n\u0259-m\u0113",
"tak-\u02c8s\u00e4n-\u0259-m\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"the taxonomies of various plant groups",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Earlier this year, a new regulation in Europe took effect that requires public companies with more than 500 employees to disclose what percentage of their operations fall under the European Union\u2019s green taxonomy . \u2014 Mark Maurer, WSJ , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Scientists have been depicting migration as a destructive force since at least the 18th century, Shah writes, when the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus invented modern taxonomy . \u2014 Sophie Murguia, Outside Online , 30 July 2020",
"The key data elements\u2014currency, for example\u2014can be aligned to a data model or taxonomy . \u2014 Tom Davenport, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"All scientific literature relating to the taxonomy of spiders has been accessible for free on the museum's website since 2014, per a statement. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Sargent's taxonomy is useful for analytical purposes, but the distinctions don't really hold up under scrutiny. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Part of this debate stems from the fact that scientists don\u2019t universally agree upon what counts as a species, per the Times, and dinosaur taxonomy is subjective. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Companies that have a real future focus on having a dynamic skills taxonomy will constantly update the team\u2019s skills, and in doing so, the employee experience. \u2014 Curtis Odom, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"In 2020, the government also set up a task force to lay out a concrete road map to bolster India\u2019s sustainable finance architecture that inter alia includes the development of a taxonomy of sustainable activities. \u2014 Shreyans Jain, Quartz , 7 Mar. 2022"
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