vat
意味
- value-added tax
- (醸造・染色などで使う液体貯蔵用の)大おけ,大だる
例文
The VAT in Germany is 19 per cent.
ドイツでは19%の消費税が課せられています。
Does that price include VAT?
その価格って、付加価値税も入ってる？
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See Etymology 3 of fat.