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Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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