Definition of "levy"

levy¹

/ˈlɛ.vi/

verb
third-person singular simple present levies, present participle levying, simple past and past participle levied
1. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
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  In August, the company also announced that it would begin to levy fines on other vendors on its platform who over-package their products.
  2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎
2. 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.
  1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]
3. To draft someone into military service.
4. 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.The spelling has been modernized.
  1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837
5. To wage war.
6. To raise, as a siege.
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  Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied
  1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […]
7. (law) 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
  1619, Michael Dalton, The Countrey Justice
noun
plural levies
1. The act of levying.
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  A levy of all the men left under sixty.
  1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece
2. The tax, property, or people so levied.
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  The Irish levies.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
  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).
  2023 November 17, Oliver Haynes, “Five years on, the world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate”, in The Guardian‎

levy²

/ˈlɛ.vi/

noun
plural levies
1. (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

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