levy
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from
lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”).
Inflected forms:
form: levies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: levying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: levied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: levied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: levies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
pos: verb
examples: If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.
gloss: To draft someone into military service.
pos: verb
gloss: To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
pos: verb
examples: Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
gloss: To wage war.
pos: verb
gloss: To raise, as a siege.
pos: verb
examples: Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied
gloss: To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
pos: verb
examples: The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills
gloss: The act of levying.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of levying.
pos: noun
examples: 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece
A levy of all the men left under sixty.
gloss: The things or people so levied.
pos: noun
examples: The Irish levies.
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).
gloss: The things or people so levied.
pos: noun
gloss: The things or people so levied.
pos: noun
gloss: The things or people so levied.
pos: noun
examples: 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].
gloss: A shilling.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
Derived words: leviable
levier
relevy
unlevied
latte levy
levy en masse
workplace parking levy
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: hef
lang: Bulgarian
word: събиране
roman: sǎbirane
lang: Bulgarian
word: облагане
roman: oblagane
lang: Catalan
word: lleva
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: alım
lang: Finnish
word: veronkanto
lang: Finnish
word: verotus
lang: Finnish
word: sakotus
lang: Finnish
word: takavarikko (of confiscation)
lang: Finnish
word: ulosotto (of confiscation)
lang: Finnish
word: sotaväenotto
lang: Finnish
word: kutsunnat
lang: Finnish
word: värväys
lang: Finnish
word: värvääminen
lang: French
word: impôt
lang: French
word: prélèvement
lang: French
word: taxe
lang: German
word: Erhebung
lang: German
word: Abgabenerhebung
lang: German
word: Umlagenerhebung
lang: Hindi
word: उगाही
roman: ugāhī
lang: Hungarian
word: adószedés
lang: Hungarian
word: adókivetés
lang: Hungarian
word: adóbehajtás
lang: Hungarian
word: adóztatás
lang: Malay
word: levi
lang: Māori
word: karawhiunga
lang: Romanian
word: impozitare
lang: Romanian
word: taxare
lang: Russian
word: сбор
roman: sbor
lang: Russian
word: взима́ние
roman: vzimánije
lang: Russian
word: обложе́ние
roman: obložénije
lang: Slovene
word: dajatev
lang: Swedish
word: uttaxering
lang: Tocharian B
word: eñcal
lang: Turkish
word: icra
lang: Turkish
word: haciz
lang: Welsh
word: treth
lang: Afrikaans
word: heffing
lang: Bulgarian
word: налог
roman: nalog
lang: Finnish
word: verotettavat
lang: Finnish
word: veronmaksajat
lang: Finnish
word: vero
lang: Finnish
word: verotulo
lang: German
word: Umlage
lang: German
word: Abgabe
lang: Spanish
word: gravamen
lang: Tocharian B
word: eñcil