Levy

Definition: Levy

Levy

Noun

1. A charge imposed and collected.

2. The act of drafting into military service.

Verb

1. Impose and collect; "levy a fine".

2. Cause to assemble or enlist; "raise an army".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "levy" was first used: 1227. (references)

Agriculture

Bible

Finance

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Synonyms: Levy

Assemblage

Noun: {opp. } assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement; team; concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione; (social gathering); assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote; conclave; (council); posse, posse comitatus; Noah's ark.

Combatant

Levy, draught; Landwehr, Landsturm; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies.

Price

Dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy; abkari; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage, likin; gabel, gabelle; gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage.

Stealing

Plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.

Taking

Oust; (eject); divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb; (suck in); draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.

Crosswords: Levy

Finnish (board, lacquered board, marker, plaque, plate, sheet, tablet, wall plaque).

By Eric Clapton, Marcy Levy and George Terry (LAY DOWN SALLY; performing artist: ERIC CLAPTON)

Frisco Sally Levy (1927)

Eugene Levy Discovers Home Safety (1987)

Hommage � Marcel Mauss: Marcel Levy (1977)

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Books

• David H. Levy Guide to the Stars (reference)

• Glories of the Past Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection (reference)

• Shoemaker by Levy (reference)

• The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle: The Selected Poetry & Art of D.A. Levy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Montana Mill Levy Book (reference)

• Hyers & Levy Actuarial Guide To Group Health Care Pricing (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Melton Levy & Dey Brothers (reference)

• Too Experienced: The Best of Barrington Levy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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"Cone and Plane" (movie) by Ben Levy.

These images of Comet P/Shoemaker- Levy 9 (1993e) fragments were made by NASA's Hubble Space ... Credit: NASA.

[Norman A. Levy, M.D.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Fitting out at the Neafie & Levy Ship & Engine Building Company shipyard, circa June-November 1902. USS Denver (Cruiser # 14) is at right, also fitting out. Credit: NAVY.

Japanese Navy Captain Masanori Shiga salutes as he boards USS Levy (DE-162), off Mili Atoll in the southeastern Marshalls Group, to surrender the Japanese base there, 22 August 1945. Facing the camera, at right, is Captain H. B. Grow, USNR, senior U.S. officer at the ceremonies. Credit: NAVY.

Richmond from Holywood / Levy & Cohen. Credit: Library of Congress.

Views of the Rebel capital and its environs. Penitentiary / Levy & Cohen. Credit: Library of Congress.

Louis Levy. Credit: Library of Congress.

The King of the Diomede Islands and Louis Levy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Inside the new prefabricated home of Levy Usher at Hazlehurst Farms Inc., Hazelhurst, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

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We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. (reference)

On the other hand, Germany shall not levy, under any denomination, any import, export or transit duty on goods carried by land or water across her territory to or from the free zone from or to any other State. (reference)

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Bid him levy straight The greatest strength and power that he can make And meet me suddenly at Salisbury

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Health

Levy, L., Floeter, MK, and Dalakas, M.Stiff-person syndrome -- an autoimmune disorder affecting gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) neurotransmission. (references)

Levy, P.Y., Drancourt, M., Etienne, J., Auvergnat, J.C., Beytout, J., Sainty, J.M., Goldstein, F., and Raoult, D. (1991). Comparison of different antibiotic regimens for therapy of 32 cases of Q fever endocarditis. (references)

Business

The Medicare levy is applied at 1.5 percent taxable income. (references)

Levy rates are proposed at 0.71c/kWh for electricity and 0.25c/kWh for gas and solid fuels. (references)

Traditional power generators (coal, oil, etc) are taxed a levy of 2.2% on the price of electricity. (references)

Children

Vietnam

It includes provisions for preferential treatment of firms that recruit persons with disabilities for training or apprenticeship and a special levy on firms that do not employ workers with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iran

Public officials frequently levy complaints against journalists, editors, publishers, and even rival publications. (references)

Economic History

Malaysia

That levy was removed on May 2, 2001. (references)

Human Rights

China

An appeals judge could then review a verdict and levy fines against judges making decisions based on faulty legal reasoning. (references)

Russia

Some were able to buy their way out by paying an immediate levy, depending on the validity of their identification documents; cleansings also are a means for military and police personnel operating in Chechnya to supplement their incomes. (references)

Political Economy

BELGIUM

National treatment standards were introduced in the blank tape levy provisions of the new law. (references)

Trade

Haiti

Pick-up trucks under 2 tons have a 5% levy. (references)

Barbados

An additional 1 percent environmental levy is also imposed. (references)

Ghana

There is a 0.5 percent ECOWAS levy on all imports from non-ECOWAS countries and 0.5 percent EDIF levy on all imports. (references)

Travel

Russia

Traffic police sometimes stop motorists to levy cash "fines," and bandits occasionally prey on travelers, especially in isolated areas. (references)

Sri Lanka

Visitors carrying laptop computers and software for use during their stay should declare the items to Customs upon entry and pay a refundable deposit, which is equivalent to a 12.5% GST and a 0.5% National Security Levy. (references)

Worker Rights

Panama

The Labor Ministry may levy fines against companies not in compliance with the law. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "levy": betterment levy ♦ capital levy ♦ defense levy ♦ Levy County ♦ levy duty on ♦ levy en masse ♦ Levy in mass ♦ levy tax ♦ levy tribute on ♦ levy war ♦ To levy a fine ♦ To levy blackmail ♦ To levy on goods and chattels ♦ To levy war. Additional references.

Beginning with "levy": levy-agresti, Levy-bruhl, levy-en-mass, Levy-lang, levy-marchal, levy-paying.

Ending with "levy": Bernard-levy, Henri-levy, super-levy.

Albanian

vënie taksash, vë taksa, sekuestroj (commandeer, sequestrate), rekrutoj (conscript, draft, draught, enlist, induct, recruit), rekrutim (conscription, recruitment), rekrutë, mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرض ضريبة (excise, tax), ‏تجنيد (enlistment, induction, mobilization, recruitment, staffing), ‏ضريبة (contribution, excise, imposition, rate, scot, tax, taxation, tribute, vat), ‏صادر (attach, commandeer, condemn, conscript, expropriate, impound, possess, requisition, seize, sequester, sequestrate, take possession of), ‏خصم (adversary, antagonist, concurrent, deduct, discount, enemy, foe, hostile, knock off, litigant, opposite, rebate, recoup, subtract, subtraction, withhold), ‏جبى (collect), ‏القوات المجندة, ‏رسم دفع (excise, rate, tax), ‏شن حربا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

събиране (accumulation, addition, aggregation, assemblage, assembly, casting, collection, convention, convergence, gathering, get together, meet, meeting, muster, summation), вземане (collection, intake), вземам (borrow, cover, fetch, get, got, gotten, load, partake, pick up, pot, retake, take, take away, take in, take up), облагане (assessment), новобранци, налагам (enforce, enjoin, force, force upon, hammer, inculcate, indicate, inflict, necessitate, predicate, punish, ramrod, superimpose, thrust, thrust on, towel, wallop), мобилизиране (mobilization), мобилизирани войници, мобилизирам (call up, mobilize). (various references)

Chinese 

征�"� (impose). (various references)

Czech

vybírání (collection, picking), odvádìt k vojsku, daò (impost, rate, scat, tax, tribute), clo (customs, duty, tariff, tax). (various references)

Danish

importafgift (import surcharge, surcharge), afgift (due, rent, royalty, tax, tax levy). (various references)

Dutch

heffing (collection). (various references)

Farsi 

مالیات بندی (Taxation), مالیات بستن بر (Assess, Excise, Impose, Scot), مالیات (Imposition, Scat, Scot, Tax, Taxation), نام نویسی (Registration), وضع مالیات (Assessment, Taxation), وصول مالیات , تحمیل (Imposition, Incurrence, Protrusion, Tax), خراج (Gavel, Spendthrift, Tax, Tribute), جمع اوری کردن (Cull, Mass, Muster, Rake, Reap), باج گیری . (various references)

Finnish

periä (collect, come into, inherit, recover). (various references)

French

prélèvement. (various references)

German

Erhebung (census, elatedness, elevation, ennoblement, enquiry, exaltation, imposition, inquiry, investigation, levying, mutiny, raising, revolt, rise, rising, survey, upheaval, uplift, uprising), erheben (ascertain, charge, edify, elevate, ennoble, exalt, extol, impose, Laud, lay, level, lever, lift, lift up, raise, to elevate, to extol, uplift, upraise). (various references)

Greek 

στρατολογώ (call up, conscript, draft, draught, enlist, impress, induct, recruit), στρατολογία (conscription, draft, impressment, recruitment), εισπράττω (cash, collect), εισφορά (contribution), είσπραξη (collection). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכס (customs, duty, scot, toll, tribute), מס (duty, fee, impost, scot, tax, tribute), י�"ב (burden, fate, imposition, impost, load, lot), ל�"טיל מס (tax), �"טלת מס (taxation), �"טל (excise, fee, impost, projection, tax). (various references)

Hungarian

sorozás (conscription, draft, enlistment, enrollment, enrolment, recruiting, recruitment), adószedés, zálogolás (distress, seizure), rekvirálás (requisition), lefoglalás (arrest, confiscation, embargo, extent, impoundment, poundage, prize, seizure), behajtott adó, befizetett adó. (various references)

Indonesian

pajak (excis, tax, taxation). (various references)

Italian

levare (abolish, get out, get up, lift, quench, raise, remove, rise, subtract, take away, take off, take out, upbeat, withdraw), leva (call up, conscription, draft, generation, hand gear, lever, levers, notification, prize, roundup, stimulus), tributo (tribute), tassare (assess, burden, rate, tax), prelievo (drawing, sample, taking, withdrawal), imposta (assessment, duty, edition, excise, imposition, impost, shutter, tax), imporre (assert oneself, be called for, be successful, become popular, call for, enforce, fix, force, impose, impose oneself, intrude, lay down, make, oblige, obtrude, order, push, raise, stand out), esaltare (aggrandise, aggrandize, become elated, celebrate, elate, eulogize, exalt, extol, extoll, get up, magnify, raise, thrill, uplift, upraise), dazio (duty, excise, tariff), arruolare (draft, draught, enlist, enrol, enroll, join up, recruit, sign on, sign up, tout, woo). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

徴収 (collection). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょうぼ (enlistment), ふか (addition, annexation, appendage, bad, burden, empty show, frivolity, hatching, imposition, improper, inadvisable, incubation, levity, load, shark, suburban districts, unjustifiable, wealthy family, within an urban-prefecture, wrong), ちょうしゅう (attendance, audience, collection, hearers, levying, recruitment). (various references)

Korean 

부과금 (Levies). (various references)

Manx

troggal sleih, possan (band, band of people, bevy, bunch, clique, colony, covey, detachment, ensemble, flock, formation of troops, gaggle, group, grouping, party, posse, pride of lions, squad, swarm), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references)

Norwegian

skatt (imposition, tax), pålegge (enjoin, impose), innkreve, avgift (licence). (various references)

Pig Latin

evylay.(various references)

Portuguese

levantamento (close, drive, lift, lifting, making, resurgence, setting-up, uplift, weighing), taxar (appraise, assess, estimate, excise, rate, tax), recrutar (conscript, crimp, enlist, enrol, enroll, impress, list, recruit), recrutamento de soldados, embargar (arrest, attach, embargo, hold), direito nivelador, coleta (collect, collection, gathering), cobrança (charging, collection), arrecadar (collect, estreat), arrecadação (collection, tax revenues). (various references)

Romanian

sumã impusã, strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), recrutare (conscription, recruiting, recruitment), recruta (commandeer, conscript, draft, enlist, muster in, recruit), percepere a impozitelor, percepe impozite (collect, raise), percepe (hear, perceive), mobilizare (conscription, mobilization), contribuţie (contribution, duty, making, rate, role, share, shot, tax), înrolare (enlistment, enrolment), înrola (enlist, recruit). (various references)

Russian 

собирать (amass, assemble, build up, collect, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, erect, gather, get together, make up, pick, pick up, raise, scoop in, scoop up), сбор (acquisition, collection, dues, duty, gathering, livies, muster), взимать (collect, raise), набранные рекруты, набор рекрутов, брать сбор. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skupljanje (agglomeration, assemblage, gathering, round up, shrink, shrinkage, shrinking), skupiti (aggregate, amass, assemble, collect, congregate, constrict, contract, gather, lay up, pucker, raise, rake, shrink, treasure), regrutovati (conscript, draft, enlist, recruit), regrutovanje (conscription, draft, drafting, induction, recruiting, recruitment), nametnuti (force upon, intrude, obtrude, put on), nametanje (imposition, intrusion, obtrusion). (various references)

Spanish

leva (cam, draft, exit), sobretasa (supertax, surcharge, surtax), sobrecarga (loading, overburden, overcharge, overfreight, overload, overprint, surcharge), reclutar (beat up, commandeer, conscript, enlist, raise, recruit), recaudar impuestos, impuesto (captation, cess, duty, exact, imposition, impost, inflicted, kept, laid, lewd, self-imposed, tax, toll), imponer en algo (awe), exigir (ask for, beg, call for, demand, exact, insist on, necessitate, need, postulate, require, require from, require of, tax, want), exacción (demand, exaction, extortion), derecho regulador. (various references)

Swedish

uttaxering, uppbåd (array, calling out, muster). (various references)

Thai

เก็บ� าษี (tax), เก�"ฑ์ทหาร, การเก�"ฑ์ทหาร, การจั�"เก็บ� าษี, ยึ�"ทรัพย์สิน. (various references)

Turkish

zorla toplamak (scratch together), zorla toplama, zorla askere alma (press), vergi koyma, toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), icra (execution, executive, performing), haczetmek (attach, confiscate, distrain, distrain on, distrain up, distress, garnish, garnishee, impound, seise, sequester, sequestrate, vest), haciz (attachment, confiscation, distraint, distress, garnishment, seizure, sequestration, vesting), el koymak (appropriate, arrest, attach, capture, commandeer, condemn, distrain, distrain on, distrain up, distress, embargo, hold, impound, impress, requisition, seise, seize, sequester, sequestrate, take the action, usurp, vest), askere almak (conscript, Crimp, draft, draught, enlist, enrol, enroll, induct, recruit). (various references)

Ukrainian

оподаткувати, оподаткування (imposition, rating, taxation), збирати (agglomerate, amass, assemble, bag, canvass, carry, collect, compile, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, gather, gather in, make up, muster, pick, pick in, summon, win), збирання (aggregation, assemblage, canvass, collection, compilation, cumulation, gathering, picking, plucking). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiền thuế thu được sự tuyển quân. (various references)

classe, classem, classes, classibus, classis, conquisitio, dilectum, dilectus, impera, imperabatis, imperabit, imperandi, imperans, imperant, imperante, imperantes, imperantium, imperantur, imperarat, imperaret, imperasti, imperat, imperate, imperator, imperatum, imperaturus, imperaverat, imperaverit, imperaveritis, imperaverunt, imperavit, imperent, imperet, impero. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "levy": levying. (additional references)

Words ending with "levy": replevy. (additional references)

Words containing "levy": replevying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Levy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blevey, blevy, deevy, devy, elevy, elv, Elvey, elvi, Evvy, evy, keevy, laevi, lavay, lavey, lavi, lavie, leety, leev, lemy, leny, leovic, lerv, lery, lety, lev, leva, levey, levie, levo, levoyah, levys, lexy, lezy, livi, Livvy, livy, lleva, lovay, lovvy, lovy, luv, luvey, luvly, luvy, lve, lvi, revvy, revy, sevy, sleevy, Ulev. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lev, ley, lye.

-2 letters: el, ye.

+1 letter: leavy, vealy.

+2 letters: evenly, evilly, levity, lively, livery, livyer, lovely, overly, shelvy, slavey, sylvae, valley, verily, vilely, volery, volley.

+3 letters: bravely, devilry, flyover, gravely, heavily, ivylike, layover, levelly, levying, livyers, loverly, naively, nervily, novelly, novelty, ovately, overfly, overlay, overply, overtly, ravelly, replevy, revelry, saveloy, silvery, slavery, slaveys, suavely, sylvine, sylvite, vaguely, valency, valleys, velvety, venally, vexedly, vilayet, virelay, vixenly, volleys, weevily.