levy

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.vi/

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).

levy (third-person singular simple present levies, present participle levying, simple past and past participle levied)

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

   to levy a tax

2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
   • Shakespeare

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

3. To draft someone into military service.
4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
   • Fuller

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

5. To wage war.
6. To raise, as a siege.

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7. (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

   to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.

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levy (plural levies)

1. The act of levying.
   • Thirlwall

     A levy of all the men left under sixty.

2. The tax, property or people so levied.
   • Macaulay

     The Irish levies.

Contraction of elevenpence.

levy (plural levies)

1. (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

• levee
• Levi

• vley

Cognate to leveä (“wide”) and levittää (“to spread”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈleʋy/, [ˈle̞ʋy]
• Hyphenation: le‧vy

levy

1. plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)
2. board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)
3. slab (thick, flat piece of material)
4. disk (device for storing data)
5. recording (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)

• (plate): laatta
• (musical recording): levytys (music); savikiekko, vinyyli, äänilevy (physical disc)

• (recording): älppäri, pitkäsoittolevy, single

• levyttää
• levytys

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004-2005). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Juva: WSOY. →ISBN.

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