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4 lettersPronunciation /sɛs/Sorted cessStarts with CEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.

Word origin

For the first meaning below, the writings of Edmund Spenser, published 1633, point to a borrowing from Irish cís (“tax, tribute, cess, rent”), likely from Latin census.

Used in a sentence

  • Therefore it was proposed to levy a cess on local authorities which are entrusted with the duty of supplying water under the law by or under which they are constituted and on certain specified industries.
  • "Bad cess may attend you, where are you scampering to, you rambunctious"—but she could go no farther; the tears burst from her, and she gave way, without farther resistance, to an explosion of grief.
  • Midland has had good cess with using minute commercials eight television stations, cited as one example of modernizing its advertising.

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