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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).
Verb
levy (third-person singular simple present levies, present participle levying, simple past and past participle levied)
- (transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
to levy a tax
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian: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.
1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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.
1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; , London: Iohn Williams , →OCLC:Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
- To wage war.
- To raise, as a siege.
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, , →OCLC:Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied
- (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
1619, Michael Dalton, The Countrey Justice:The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills
Translations
to raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority
to draft into military service
Noun
levy (plural levies)
- The act of levying.
- 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece
A levy of all the men left under sixty.
- The tax, property, or people so levied.
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, →ISSN: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).
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Translations
act of levying
- Afrikaans: hef (af)
- Bulgarian: събиране (bg) n (sǎbirane), облагане (bg) n (oblagane)
- Catalan: lleva (ca) f
- Crimean Tatar: alım
- Finnish: veronkanto (fi) (tax), verotus (fi) (of tax); sakotus (fi) (of fine); takavarikko (fi) (of confiscation), ulosotto (fi) (of confiscation); sotaväenotto (military draft), kutsunnat (fi) pl (military draft), värväys (fi) (military draft), värvääminen (fi) (military draft)
- French: impôt (fr), prélèvement (fr), taxe (fr)
- German: Erhebung (de) f, Abgabenerhebung f, Umlagenerhebung f
- Hungarian: adószedés (hu), adókivetés (hu), adóbehajtás (hu), adóztatás (hu)
- Malay: levi (ms)
- Maori: karawhiunga (referring to an army)
- Romanian: impozitare (ro) f, taxare (ro) m
- Russian: сбор (ru) m (sbor), взима́ние (ru) n (vzimánije), обложе́ние (ru) n (obložénije)
- Slovene: dajatev f
- Swedish: uttaxering
- Tocharian B: eñcal
- Turkish: icra (tr), haciz (tr)
- Welsh: treth (cy) f
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tax, property or people so levied
Etymology 2
Contraction of elevenpence.
Noun
levy (plural levies)
- (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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Finnish
Etymology
lev- + -y; from the same root as leveä (“wide”).
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Noun
levy
- plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)
- board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)
- slab (thick, flat piece of material)
- (computing, electronics) disk (device for storing data)
- (music) recording, disc (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)
- Ellipsis of keittolevy (“hotplate”).
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References
- Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
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