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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
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
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。