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poll tax

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poll tax noun
plural poll taxes
poll tax
noun
plural poll taxes
Learner's definition of POLL TAX
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: a tax that each adult has to pay in order to vote in an election人头税
◊ Poll taxes are no longer legal in the U.S.在美国,人头税不再是合法的。
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poll tax

noun

: a tax of a fixed amount per person levied on adults and often linked to the right to vote

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Section 259 is part of Article XIV on education and is the surviving reference to the poll tax. Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al, 31 July 2022 The poll tax was used for decades to keep poor people, white and Black, from voting. Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al, 31 July 2022 Florida, Tennessee, and Arkansas were among the first states to take action, passing requirements like the poll tax between 1889 and 1892. Nick Tabor, The New Republic, 4 Feb. 2022 But now the House has passed a ruthless attack on democracy, a poll tax in disguise, an attack on college students, the elderly, minorities, and the poor. Matt Ford, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2021 The American Civil Liberties Union and its Georgia chapter filed a lawsuit in April 2020 saying that Georgia’s postage requirement for absentee ballots and ballot applications effectively imposes a poll tax and is therefore unconstitutional. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2021 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s disastrous poll tax of 1990. Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Sep. 2021 Hidalgo calmly replied that the bill—which would limit voting hours, forbid drive-through voting, and embolden partisan poll watchers—was no different from a literacy test or a poll tax. Stephania Taladri, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021 Mississippi passed laws that required a poll tax and mandated literacy tests. Javonte Anderson, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1692, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of poll tax was in 1692
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