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levy English

Meaning levy meaning

What does levy mean?
Definitions in simple English

levy Verb

— If you levy a charge or a tax, you legally make people pay it. The government levies a tax on all wood entering the country.

levy Noun

— A levy is an extra charge on top of the basic price, usually a tax. The levy on fuel went up this year. — Someone drafted or conscripted into military service.

levy

— verb (= impose) impose and collect levy a fine — noun a charge imposed and collected — noun the act of drafting into military service — verb (= recruit, raise) cause to assemble or enlist in the military raise an army recruit new soldiers

Synonyms levy synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as levy?

levy English » English

tax impose taxation collect draft tribute toll recruit fee enlistment duty raise levy en masse imposition collection charge inflict impost exact enlist conscription conscript collecting collect taxes call up assess yield tithe taxes tax gathering selective service seize property scot recruitment receipts rate ratable tax put on muster lift levying lay induct impressment impress imposing goods and services tax gabelle fine enforce

Topics levy topics

What do people use levy to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance

Tax

Conjugation levy conjugation

How do you conjugate levy?

levy · verb

Examples levy examples

How do I use levy in a sentence?

Simple sentences

In July of 1994, Jupiter was hit by pieces of the Shoemaker-Levy comet. Dark areas appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere after the large pieces hit the planet.
The airport improvement levy seems higher than last year.

Movie subtitles

Well, Inspector, you know the old distillery of Kuntz and Levy?
All right, Levy, all right.
Allow me, my dear Levy Stein?
Hello, Dr. Levy.
But leave my men alone. For any Levy you may plague them with hereafter, I'll take double the amount from montrose's own granary.
True, good Catesby, bid him levy straight the greatest strength and power he can make. and meet me presently at Salisbury.
Lieutenant Levy, sir.
Sol Levy.
How can Rome levy taxes on the people if they follow his teaching?
My name is Levy.
Arthur Levy.
Levy won't do.
Miss Levy is perfectly able to attend to this.
Miss Levy?
I loved Sabine Levy, the administrative secretary.
It's a collection department to levy a tax on the most well-off for the right to live.
Now although we believe, theoretically, in ending guaranteed farm prices, we also believe in the need for a corresponding import levy to maintain consumer prices at a realistic level.
And that you did traitorously and maliciously levy a cruel war against Parliament and the people.
Not steel, nor poison malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
WOMAN OVER PA: Michael Levy, please call reception.
Camille Levy, non-stop to Denver.
Miss Levy.
No, Miss Levy.
Ah, Levy. Good of you to come.
Levy?
And if it matters, Levy, I wept the day he died.
Thomas Babbington Levy.
He was H. V. Levy, for Chrissakes.
Ah. Levy.
To rule at your will and overthrow the rights and liberties of the people. And that you did traitorously and maliciously levy a cruel war against Parliament and the people.
Treason has done his worst. Not steel, nor poison malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
Bram Levy, Esther.
There is a small levy, of course.
Well, that sounds fair enough, but who fixes the levy?
Mr. Levy is dead.
His name is Louis Levy.
I got everyone at the network excited over Professor Levy.
Professor Levy.

News and current affairs

Suppose that we levy a small tax on existing coal power plants in order to pay for the solar subsidy, and then gradually raise consumers' electricity bills as more and more solar plants are phased in.
This is why one can hear many voices opposing the idea of a harmonized EU-wide bank levy or tax.
This levy, strongly backed by those countries whose financial sectors are in tatters after the crisis, is hard to swallow for EU states that did not intervene to bail out their banks.
The levy is an easy way to spread the political and financial costs of the crisis from some to all EU members.
Our leaders, from Levy Eshkol (and much more so Golda Meir) to Yitzhak Shamir, erred gravely in not seizing the earliest opportunity to arrange a territorial separation and a horizon of sovereignty for the post-1967 Palestinians.
This levy would represent a sort of automatic fine, thus making the elaborate structure of the Pact redundant.
And, if it were really possible to ensure that the wealth levy would be temporary, such a tax would, in principle, be much less distortionary than imposing higher marginal tax rates on income.
Part of the reason is that corruption remains high and administrative capacity to levy taxes remains woefully limited.
For example, although the so-called Tobin tax (a small levy on financial transactions) was originally intended to fund development assistance, a version of it was recently adopted in Europe in order to supplement national budget revenues.
The third aim could be achieved country by country, but it is certainly arguable that an across-the-board banking levy, or a Europe-wide financial-transaction tax, would eliminate competitive distortions.
Instead, the reform proposals have opted for a mixture of higher capital requirements for leading banks and pre-funding of deposit insurance by a special levy on banks.
And inflation is - like default - a capital levy on holders of public debt, as it reduces the real value of nominal liabilities at fixed interest rates.
Secara khusus, Carbon Levy Project mengajukan pajak di titik-titik ekstraksi bahan bakar fosil.
It is time for an international tax on bank profits - perhaps implemented as a levy on international financial transactions - which would raise tens of billions of dollars each year.
This was followed by a bill proposing a special levy on countries running large bilateral trade surpluses with the US.
To raise these extra amounts, the Obama administration could levy an excess-profit tax on Wall Street to make up the budget gap.
In response, the US Congress is moving to create a system of trade sanctions that would levy heavy taxes on imports from other major greenhouse gas emitters.
Defections from Prime Minister Barak's government and coalition, including the resignation of his foreign minister, David Levy, who refused to accompany Barak to Washington, will make the negotiations even more dramatic.
Although governments levy taxes on gasoline, they are reluctant to impose a general carbon tax because of public opposition to any form of taxation.

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