- a gift, testimonial, compliment, or the like, given as due or in acknowledgment of gratitude or esteem.
- a stated sum or other valuable consideration paid by one sovereign or state to another in acknowledgment of subjugation or as the price of peace, security, protection, or the like.
- a rent, tax, or the like, as that paid by a subject to a sovereign.
- any exacted or enforced payment or contribution.
- obligation or liability to make such payment.
- a gift or statement made in acknowledgment, gratitude, or admiration
- a payment by one ruler or state to another, usually as an acknowledgment of submission
- any tax levied for such a payment
- (in feudal society) homage or a payment rendered by a vassal to his lord
- the obligation to pay tribute
