Definition of "taxgatherer" []

• One who collects taxes or revenues; a tax collector. (noun)

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• "Saint Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a taxgatherer, was called by our Saviour to the Apostleship: in that profession his name is Levi."
• "No taxgatherer in the British Dominions — that wide – spread territory on which the sun never sets, and where the tax – gatherer never goes to bed — was more regular and persevering in his calls than"
• "The grim janitor relented at the touch of my money, which he took with all the indifference of a taxgatherer, and showed me into a parlour, where, he said, I might amuse myself till such time as his lord should be awake."