Usually means: Tax levied for specific purpose.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cess: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cess, cess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cess: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cess, cess, cess: Wordnik
  6. cess: Wiktionary
  7. cess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cess: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cess, cess: Dictionary.com
  10. Cess (rail transport), Cess: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Cess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. cess: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Cess: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cess: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. Cess: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. cess: Free Dictionary
  17. cess: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. -cess: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cess: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CESS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CESS: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cess: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cess)

noun:  (British, Ireland) An assessed tax, duty, or levy; billeting.
noun:  (British, Ireland, informal) Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
noun:  (obsolete) Bound; measure.
verb:  (British, Ireland) To levy a cess.
noun:  (rail transport) The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
noun:  (obsolete, dialect) A bog, in particular a peat bog.
noun:  (obsolete, dialect) A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.
verb:  (obsolete, law) To cease; to neglect.

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