tariff(n = noun.possession) duty - a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries"
is a kind of indirect tax
has particulars: custom, customs, customs duty, impost, tonnage, tonnage duty, tunnage, octroi, revenue tariff, protective tariff, import duty, export duty, countervailing duty
Derived form verb tariff₁

   tariff(v = verb.possession) Array - charge a tariff; "tariff imported goods"
is one way to tax
Derived form noun tariff₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833). [1913 Webster]
" The United States and Great Britain impose no duties on exports; hence, in these countries the tariff refers only to imports." [1913 Webster]
" A tariff may be imposed solely for, and with reference to, the production of revenue (called a revenue tariff, or tariff for revenue, or for the artificial fostering of home industries (a projective tariff), or as a means of coercing foreign governments, as in case of retaliatory tariff." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2.  The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound. [1913 Webster]

3.  Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares. Bolingbroke. [1913 Webster]

   To make a list of duties on, as goods. [1913 Webster]

tariff, n. & v.
--n.
1 a table of fixed charges (a hotel tariff).
2 a a duty on a particular class of imports or exports. b a list of duties or customs to be paid.
3 standard charges agreed between insurers etc.
--v.tr. subject (goods) to a tariff.

Etymology:
F tarif f. It. tariffa f. Turk. tarife f. Arab. ta' rif(a) f. ' arrafa notify

N  price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure, demand, damage, fare, hire, wages, value, dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy, abkari, capitation tax, poll tax, doomage, likin, gabel, gabelle, gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff, brokerage, wharfage, freightage, bill, shot, priced, to the tune of, ad valorem, dutiable, mercenary, venal, no penny no paternoster, point d'argent point de Suisse, no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper, if you dance you have to pay the piper, you get what you pay for, there's no such thing as a free lunch, one may have it for, a bon marche.

protective tariff, revenue tariff