1) a renter or farmer of taxes
    1a) among the Romans, usually a man of equestrian rank
 2) a tax gatherer, collector of taxes or tolls, one employed by a
    publican or farmer general in the collection of taxes. The tax
    collectors were as a class, detested not only by the Jews, but by
    other nations also, both on account of their employment and of the
    harshness, greed, and deception, with which they did their job.

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