Meaning

(transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
3. To draft someone into military service.
4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
5. To wage war.
6. To raise, as a siege.
7. (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
8. The act of levying.

Example Sentences

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.

If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.

Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.

Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied

The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills

Word Forms

• levies
• levying
• levied

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When Should You Use Levy?

Use levy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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