Octroi

Word OCTROI
Character 6
Hyphenation ‖Oc troi
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Octroi"

What do we mean by octroi?

A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, such as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.

A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.

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The word "octroi" in example sentences

For, while the pressure _per capita_ of the octroi is much greater than it was in 1870, the actual receipts from the _octroi_ were less with a population of ❋ William Henry Hurlbert (1861)

His education would have qualified him for any course of life; and he became an octroi-clerk -- [The octroi is the tax on provisions levied at the entrance of the town] -- in one of the little toll-houses at the entrance of his native town. ❋ Various (N/A)

The unfortunate householder, for example, who is persuaded to keep walking in the conservatory "pour retablir la circulation," and the other who describes himself "sous-chef de bureau dans l'enregistrement," and he who proposes to "faire hommage" of a doubtful turbot to the neighbouring "employe de l'octroi" -- these and all their like speak commonplaces so usual as to lose in their own country the perfection of their dulness. ❋ Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1884)

These market dues still survive in the "octroi" collected at the gates of some European cities. ❋ Hutton Webster (N/A)

The Municipal Council is negotiating with the Credit Foncier for the erection of a certain number of cheap houses, which, for the space of twenty years, will be exempt from all taxes, such as octroi, highway, door and window tax, etc. ❋ Various (N/A)

They were at once presented with; the stamp-duty, registration, the lottery, the droits reunis, the tax on cards, and the 'octroi'. ❋ Various (N/A)

They were at once presented with; the stamp - duty, registration, the lottery, the droits reunis, the tax on cards, and the 'octroi'. ❋ Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet De (1836)

The implementation of GST will lead to the abolition of taxes such as octroi, central sales tax, state level sales tax, entry tax, stamp duty, telecom licence fees, turnover tax, tax on consumption or sale of electricity and taxes on transportation of goods and services. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Abd al-Rahman wanted these kotwalis informed at least for the purpose of avoiding octroi, other municipal taxes, and transit duties on the subsidy-garnered goods as they moved through and between those primary markets in India. back ❋ Unknown (2008)

The circumvented brokers and weighmen envisioned the declining fruit trade would also be reflected in diminishing Peshawar municipal octroi receipts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The abattoirs are all within the walls of Paris, with an eye to the receipt of the octroi duty; but, they stand in open places in the suburbs, removed from the press and bustle of the city. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The 5-km stretch from Ramwadi octroi post to Chandannagar on the Pune-Nagar road highway is one of the worst roads in Pune. ❋ Chirayu (2005)

But what we were not prepared for was the fact of octroi at Valladolid, and for the strange behavior of the local customs officer who stopped us on our way into the town. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But the octroi at Seville is not serious, and a walrus-mustached old porter, who looked like an old American car-driver of the bearded eighteen-sixties, eased us — not very swiftly, but softly — through the local customs, and then we drove neither so swiftly nor so softly to the hotel, where we had decided we would have rooms on the patio. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A few miles and a few minutes more and we were in the embrace of the loveliest of them, which was at first the clutch on the octroi. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We were very glad indeed to get to Madrid, though dismayed by apprehensions of the octroi which we felt sure awaited us. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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