The Caribbean islands are called the West Indies to correct the name, Indies, mistakenly given by Christopher Columbus. Columbus thought he had reached the Indies of Asia.
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Word forms: plural sales taxes. variable noun. The sales tax on things that you buy is the amount of money that you pay to the national government, or, in the United States, to the local or state government.