横征暴敛
Traditional form:
橫征暴斂
Pinyin (reading):
héngzhēngbàoliǎn
Definitions:
- to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
Characters:
- 横 - horizontal, across; unreasonable, harsh
- 征 - to summon, to recruit; levy, tax; journey; invasion
- 暴 - violent, brutal, tyrannical
- 敛 - to collect, to extort
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