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Vat   /væt/   Listen
Vat

noun
1.
A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production.  Synonyms: ad valorem tax, value-added tax.
2.
A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids.  Synonym: tub.



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"Vat" Quotes from Famous Books



... knocking the ashes from his pipe—'you know tee shentlemen of tee armee? Vat for ...
— Whig Against Tory - The Military Adventures of a Shoemaker, A Tale Of The Revolution • Unknown

... sucre in Martinique; maismais ce nest pas one treeahahvat you callje voudrois que ces chemins fussent au diable - vat you callsteeck pour la promenade? Cane, said Elizabeth, smiling at the imprecation which the wary Frenchman supposed was understood only by himself. Oui, mamselle, ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper

... "Shoost vat you mide expeg from a new chum!" replied Hans, who had lived in Australia. Then they both went back to their respective ...
— Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories - 1898 • Louis Becke

... trunks and branches of dead trees and scrub, killed by falling ash or gusts of vapour, dotted an awesome desolation of calcined and fused stone and solidified mud. At the summit we looked down into the churning horror of the volcano's vat and at different spots saw the treacly sulphur pouring out, brilliant yellow with red streaks. The man to whom there first came the idea of hell and a prisoned revengeful power must surely have looked into a crater. In the throat of this ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

... fled before her like frightened forest things. Her white feet trod the huge press at which wise Omar sits, till the seething grape-juice rose round her bare limbs in waves of purple bubbles, or crawled in red foam over the vat's black, dripping, sloping sides. It was an extraordinary improvisation. He felt that the eyes of Dorian Gray were fixed on him, and the consciousness that amongst his audience there was one whose temperament he wished to fascinate, seemed to give his wit keenness, ...
— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde


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