Definition of "cess" [cess]

• Irish Luck. (noun)

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• "A cess is a form of octroi tax and has the advantage of the payer not having to pay up at every octroi post like in other cases."
• "'Therefore, instead of burdening parents with hefty fee, the government should compensate the private schools by providing financial support out of education cess, which is kept unutilised in the Prathamik Shiksha Kosh (primary education fund) established in"
• "The Covenanters now became reckless and wild, for again torn asunder by the "cess" controversy (a dispute arose as to whether it was lawful to pay the tax or "cess" raised for an unlawful object, the carrying on of a Government persecuting the true Kirk) they were but"