cess

About 0.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.
2. noun Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
3. noun Bound; measure.
4. verb To levy a cess.
5. noun The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
6. noun A bog, in particular a peat bog.
7. noun A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.
8. verb To cease; to neglect.

Similar words

cees suc hypothecation rate levy mise land tax rates use tax stamp duty

Often followed by

of to on and in is act was or

Word family

cesses