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8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging)
originFrom revenue + -er, reflecting the U.S. Treasury Department's former Bureau of Internal Revenue (a predecessor of the IRS and ATF), because the administrative mechanism for enforcing Prohibition originated in excise tax administration; Wikipedia gives details at Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives § History.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- nervure 10
- revenue 10
- unreeve 10
- enerve 9
- evener 9
- revere 9
- veneer 9
- nerve 8
- never 8
- reeve 8
- revue 8
- venue 8