VAT

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vat"

Translingual

Symbol

VAT

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for the Vatican City.
    Synonym: VA (alpha-2)

English

Pronunciation

  • (initialism) enPR: vē"-ā-tē', IPA(key): /ˌviːeɪˈtiː/
  • (acronym) enPR: văt, IPA(key): /væt/
  • Rhymes: -iː, -æt

Noun

VAT (uncountable)

  1. (taxation) Initialism of value added tax.
    • 2024 December 28, Jonathan Nicholson, “Yes, There Are Ways To Cut The Budget Deficit. 'DOGE' Hasn’t Found Them So Far.”, in HuffPost[1]:
      And neither party is up for imposing a VAT in place of the current income tax system.
  2. Initialism of vigilance awareness training.

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Polish

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English VAT.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvat/
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  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: VAT
  • Homophones: wat, Wat, WAT

Noun

VAT m inan (indeclinable, related adjective VAT-owski or vatowski)

  1. VAT (value added tax)
    Synonym: podatek od towarów i usług
  2. VAT (form that is used to account for value added tax)

Declension

or

Indeclinable

Derived terms

nouns
  • VAT-owiec
  • vatowiec

Further reading

  • VAT in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • VAT in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • VAT in PWN's encyclopedia