See Also: Tariff(money)
Tariff(finance)
tariff(dictionary)
tariff(encyclopedia)
tariff(dictionary)
TARIFF(law)
Revenue Tariff(money)
Confidential tariff(tourism)
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act(encyclopedia)

tariff (iou)



tariff noun & verb. L16.
[French tarif from Italian tariffa from Turkish tarife from Arab. tarif(a from arrafa notify, apprise.]
A. noun.
An arithmetical table or statement; a table of multiplication, a ready reckoner, etc. L16-L18.
An official list or schedule giving the customs duties to be levied on particular classes of imports or exports; an item on such a list; the duty levied on an article or class of articles. Also, the complete system of such duties as established in any country. L16.
tariff barrier, tariff duty, tariff-treaty, tariff war, etc.
M. E. G. Duff The adoption of a free-trade tariff. Car & Driver The nasty import tariff that's levied on two-door sport-utility vehicles. attrib.:
A table or scale of fixed charges made by a private or public business, as a list of prices for a hotel, a schedule of rates payable for a public utility, etc. Also, standard charges agreed between insurers etc. M18.
Times British Gas gave an undertaking not to increase domestic tariffs for 12 months. R. Hayman A cabdriver..demanded three lire but refused to show them the tariff.
Law. A scale of sentences and damages for crimes and injuries of different severities. L20.
Comb.: tariff-reform (a) gen. the reform of a tariff, or of existing tariff conditions; (b) Hist. in the US, a reform in favour of reducing import duties, and generally moving away from protectionism; in Britain in the early 20th cent., a reform in favour of the extension of tariffs on imports, as opp. to free trade; tariff-reformer an advocate or supporter of tariff-reform; tariff wall a national trade barrier in the form of a tariff.
b. verb.
verb intrans. Set tariffs, deal with tariffs. rare. Only in M18.
verb trans. Subject (goods) to a tariff or duty; fix the price of (something) according to a tariff. E19.
Westminster Review The best Gascony wine..tariffed in London..at 13 the tun.
tariffable adjective able to be subjected to a tariff L19.