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# tariff

«tariff» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tax that a country makes people pay on goods brought in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a tariff, tariffs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tariff is a tax that a country makes people pay on goods brought in from another country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tariff/#m1)

2) (UK) A tariff is a list of prices or charges, for example for electricity, phone calls, hotel rooms or trains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tariff/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In social studies and news, tariffs make imported goods cost more. In everyday UK life, families choose a phone or energy tariff. In maths problems, a tariff can be a percentage added to a price or a rate per unit: «the tariff is 10% on each car».

### examples

- The country put a tariff on imported steel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tariff/#x1)
- Tariffs make foreign goods more expensive in the shops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tariff/#x2)
- Mum switched to a cheaper phone tariff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tariff/#x3)
- The hotel tariff is on the board by the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tariff/#x4)
- A 10% tariff on a 200 dollar bike adds 20 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tariff/#x5)
- The electricity tariff is 30p for each unit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tariff/#x6)

### note

Spelled with one r and two f's: tariff. Plural: tariffs. In maths, a tariff of 10% means multiply the price by 10/100 and add it: 200 + 20 = 220.

### In the corpora

- [Some say tariffs protect home factories and bring jobs back; others say the cost is often passed on to shoppers as higher prices.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tariff» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tariff/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.