levy
noun
- act of imposition or collection
verb
- to impose or collect
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛ.vi/ / /ˈliː.vi/
name
Etymology: * As a Jewish surname, a variant of the biblical name Levi. Compare Lowy. * As a Czech surname, from the adjective levý (“left”). * Also a shortening of Irish Mac Duinnshléibhe (“son of the chief on the mountain”), from mac (“son”) + donn (“noble”) + sliabh (“mountain”).
- A surname from Irish.
- A Jewish surname from Hebrew.
“On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology. […] Till is somewhere on the Hemsworth spectrum (more engaging than Liam; not as charismatic at Chris), but Levy is wholly charming as his enthusiastic sidekick.”
- A male given name.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Jasper County, South Carolina, United States.
noun
Etymology: Contraction of elevenpence.
- The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
verb
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”).
- To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
“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.
“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.
“Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.”
- To wage war.
- To raise, as a siege.
“Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied”
- To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
“The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills”