a government tax on some goods made, sold or used within a country国内货物税；消费税- new excise duties on low-alcohol drinks低酒精饮料新的消费税
- a sharp increase in vehicle excise机动车消费税的剧增
- an excise officer (= an official whose job is to collect excise)国内消费税务官
compare customsExtra Examples- the excise levied on beer and tobacco啤酒烟草消费税
- to increase the excise on whisky增加威士忌消费税
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + exciseexcise + nounprepositionSee full entry Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the general sense ‘a tax or toll’): from Middle Dutch excijs, accijs, perhaps based on Latin accensare ‘to tax’, from ad- ‘to’ + census ‘tax’ (see census).