octroi means A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, such as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
Why this word is great
OCTROI — [Noun] A local duty levied on goods brought into a town or city for consumption, the granular tax of civic ingress. From French octroi ("grant, concession"), from Old French otroier ("to grant"), from Late Latin auctōrizāre ("to authorize"). Unlike a toll (a fee for passage across a bridge) or a tariff (a national levy on cross-border trade), octroi is the municipality's claim upon the substance of its own hinterland. It is the creak of a laden cart halted at the stone gatehouse at dusk, the official’s chalk marking a taxable barrel, the faint scent of apples and damp wool mingling with the ledger's ink—a humble, forgotten ritual by which a walled town asserted its skin in the game of every sack of flour, a small toll on the aspiration to become part of a city's metabolism.
noun
- A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, such as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.
- A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.