Pronunciations
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/ˈlɛ.vi/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
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Verb
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
Usage- Transitive
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to levy a tax
In August, the company also announced that it would begin to levy fines on other vendors on its platform who over-package their products.
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
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If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.
To draft someone into military service.
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
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Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
To wage war.
To raise, as a siege.
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Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied
To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
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The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills
Noun
The act of levying.
The act of levying. A conscription action.
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1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece A levy of all the men left under sixty.
The things or people so levied. A tax. A tax paid in money.
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The Irish levies.
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The first is that French people are more concerned about the poor health of their democracy – since the carbon levy they have campaigned for democratic reform (though this has proven harder to deliver than the tax U-turn).
The things or people so levied. A tax. A tax in kind.
The things or people so levied. Requisitioned supplies.
The things or people so levied. A body of conscripts.
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To make up for their losses at the battle they [the professional army of Harold II, Anglo-Saxon King of England] had gathered levies of men from the counties they passed through on their way south. […] Ranged alongside these professionals were the levies: farmers and peasants, for the most part, who had been straggling in from all over the southern counties during the previous few days [before the Battle of Hastings in 1066].
A shilling.
Usage- Obsolete
- Slang
Noun
The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
Usage- Pennsylvania
- US usage
- Virginia
- Obsolete
- Related words
Noun
a charge imposed and collected
- Broader terms
the act of drafting into military service
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
Verb
impose and collect
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levy a fine
cause to assemble or enlist in military
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raise an army
recruit new soldiers