taxpayers
TAKS-pay-erz/ˈtæksˌpeɪɚz/UKTAKS-pay-uhz/ˈtæksˌpeɪəz/
- 1Plural of taxpayer.
The new policy will save taxpayers millions of dollars a year.
City officials promised that taxpayers would see lower bills next quarter.
Note
A regular plural: the closed compound simply takes -s at its end. In public debate it often stands for the paying public as a whole, the people whose money a budget spends. The possessive puts the apostrophe after the s, as in taxpayers' money or at taxpayers' expense. Taxpayer's, with the apostrophe before the s, means a single person.
taxpayers is a form of taxpayer
taxpayer, noun: A person who must pay tax, who is legally liable for it, or who is otherwise subject to it. Full entry
- Forms
- taxpayertaxpayers plural
- Spelling
- taxpayer → taxpayers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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