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special assessment

a special tax levied on a property to pay for a local public improvement, as a sewer, that will presumably benefit that property

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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