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    As a verb, to 'levy' something, usually a tax or a fine, means for a government or authority to officially charge or collect it, like 'the city levies a tax on hotel rooms.' As a noun, 'a levy' is the tax, fine, or amount collected this way. It's a fairly formal word, mostly used in news, government, or business writing, not really in casual conversation.

    徵收(稅);稅款、徵收額

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組成Comes from an old French word 'lever,' meaning 'to raise' - a levy is money 'raised' by a government or authority.

同家族的字

  • levershares the same root meaning 'to raise'

原始詞典資料21 筆記錄

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Levyname詞源 1/ˈlɛ.vi/

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    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.
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    A male given name.

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    An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri, United States.

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    An unincorporated community in Jasper County, South Carolina, United States.

Levyname詞源 2/ˈlɛ.vi/

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    A surname from Czech.

Levyname詞源 3/ˈlɛ.vi/

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    A surname from Irish.

levyverb詞源 1/ˈlɛ.vi/

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    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.
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    To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.

    • If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.
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    To draft someone into military service.

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    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.
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    To wage war.

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    To raise, as a siege.

    • Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied
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    lawTo erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

    • The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills

levynoun詞源 1/ˈlɛ.vi/

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    The act of levying.

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    The act of levying.

    • 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece A levy of all the men left under sixty.
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    The things or people so levied.

    • 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).
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    The things or people so levied.

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    The things or people so levied.

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    The things or people so levied.

    • 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].
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    obsoleteslangA shilling.

levynoun詞源 2/ˈlɛ.vi/

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    obsoleteThe 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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