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- noun Plural form of
taxable .
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Examples
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The tax-free bonds also are backed by the state ' s full faith and credit and are rated the same as the taxables.
California Begins Last Leg of Bond Sale Stan Rosenberg 2010
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"We're actually getting higher returns on the tax-exempts than on taxables," Mr. Rentschler said.
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In between his comparison shopping, he would arrange the cart, putting all the taxables in one corner, the dairy products in another, and surrounding the eggs by a wall of toilet tissue.
The Ties That Bind...And Gag! Bombeck, Erma 1987
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I continued this attention to the care of the blacks of my parish, who amounted to upwards of a thousand taxables, all the time I remained in St. Mary's.
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As his name does not appear among the Wilmington taxables in 1755 or among those with houses in Wilmington in 1756, it is likely that he did not marry much before 1760, which would put his birth date at least as far back as 1740.
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In 1755, the year after his marriage, he was assessed in the Wilmington valuation of that year at £225 and his taxables were rated at ten.
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In 1754 it had only 54 black, against 1116 white, taxables. 2
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In 1767 there were in the sixteen counties which we may call eastern, that is to say those that were not settled by people who came the western route, 10,238 white, as against 12,307 black, taxables.
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In 1761 Governor Dobbs, writing to the home government on the condition of the colony, reported that there were not 12,000 negro taxables in its borders, and he added that the increase in the entire population came mostly from births, since but few people had come in since the French and Indian War. 6
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Until well into the second quarter of the nineteenth century it was the usual thing in North Carolina to speak of a free negro as a "free person of color." had moved into the province, henceforth all free negroes, mulattoes, and persons of mixed blood to the third generation, male or female, of twenty years of age or more, should pay the same levies as other taxables. 5
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