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Death duty   /dɛθ dˈuti/   Listen
Death duty

noun
1.
A tax on the estate of the deceased person.  Synonyms: death tax, estate tax, inheritance tax.






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"Death duty" Quotes from Famous Books



... inclined to jest at his expense, followed the pageboy, slightly reassured by the thought that George had just lost his father. He must have come in for about thirty thousand, besides what he had under that settlement of Roger's, which had avoided death duty. He found George in a bow-window, staring out across a half-eaten plate of muffins. His tall, bulky, black-clothed figure loomed almost threatening, though preserving still the supernatural neatness of the racing man. With a faint grin on ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy



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