Cess Definition

sĕs
noun
Luck.
American Heritage
In Ireland, an assessment; tax.
Webster's New World

(rail transport) 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.

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verb
(UK, Ireland) To levy a cess.
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(obsolete) To cease; to neglect.

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Other Word Forms of Cess

Noun

Singular:
cess
Plural:
cesses

Origin of Cess

  • Shortened form of assess, spelled by analogy with census and other Latinate words.

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  • Possibly from an archaic dialect word meaning "bog".

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  • French cesser. See cease.

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  • Possibly short for success

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cess Sentence Examples

  • The poor-rate and the county cess, which latter was mostly paid by the tenants, were consolidated, and an agricultural grant of £730,000 was voted by parliament in order to relieve both parties.

  • In 1685 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for collecting the cess of the county (Ibid, VIII., 463 ).

  • By default notify marks the current pro- cess; simply say ` notify ' after starting a background job to mark it.

  • The Tea Cess Committees of India and Ceylon have both sent representatives in recent years to study the manner of growth and production, but in neither country has there been so far any successful attempt to produce commercially tea of the class.

  • British Commercial MissionsOwing to the success of the Maclean mission, which visited and reported upon the markets and trade-routes of north-western Persia in 1903, under the direction of the Board of Trade, a similar mission was sent to southern Persia in 1904, under the auspices of the Upper India Chamber of Commerce, the Bengal Chamber and the Indian Tea Cess Company.

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