0 a large container used for mixing or storing liquid substances, especially in a factory:
1 value added tax (= a type of tax in European countries that is paid by the person who buys goods and services)
2 a large container for mixing or storing liquids, esp. as used in industry:
3 abbreviation for Value Added Tax: a tax that is paid at each stage in the production of goods or services, and by the final customer. Businesses in the production process take away the cost of inputs (= labour, materials, etc.) from the cost of outputs (= products and services sold) to calculate the amount that they must pay:
The builder wasn't registered for VAT.
The papermaker who employed four vats lost one hundred production days per year, and squandered cartloads of coal warming the pulp in idle vessels.
You could, for instance, be a happy brain in a vat.
This is not credible: surely you are better off as a happy brain in a vat or brainwashing victim than as an unhappy one.
The discovery and use of arsenical solutions in dipping vats for treating cattle to protect them against ticks revolutionized tick and tick-borne disease control programmes.
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