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Definition of Octroi
1. Noun. A tax on various goods brought into a town.
Definition of Octroi
1. n. A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.
Definition of Octroi
1. a tax on certain articles brought into a city [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octroi
Literary usage of Octroi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"octroi (O. Fr. octroyer, to grant, authorize, Lat. auctor), a local tax collected
on various articles brought into a district for ..."
2. Paris and Its Environs, Displayed in a Series of Two Hundred Picturesque by Augustus Pugin, Charles Heath (1831)
"octroi GENERAL. THE octroi here collected are public duties on ... The octroi
General, or Central, as it is also called, is situated in the Rue des Petites ..."
3. The Finances and Public Works of India from 1869 to 1881 by John Strachey, Richard Strachey (1882)
"CHAPTER XVII octroi DUTIES octroi ... on the system by which, through a large
part of India, octroi duties and tolls are levied for municipal purposes. ..."
4. Municipal Government in Continental Europe by Albert Shaw (1895)
"The receipts of Marseilles for the same year somewhat exceeded fifteen million
francs, of which the octroi yielded 9000000 francs of ordinary revenue and ..."
5. Municipal Government in Continental Europe by Albert Shaw (1895)
"The receipts of Marseilles for the same year somewhat exceeded fifteen million
francs, of which the octroi yielded 9000000 francs of ordinary ..."
6. Studies in European Politics by Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1866)
"In 1860 it was able to commence a series of financial reforms by abolishing the
octroi,* and substituting for it taxes less oppressive to industry. ..."
7. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"They were charters of government, or octroi constitutions, issued under the
general authority which the proprietors had received to govern their provinces. ..."
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