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levy




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levy
     1. v. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
           to levy a tax
     2. v. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
     3. v. To draft someone into military service.
     4. v. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
     5. v. To wage war.
     6. v. To raise, as a siege.
     7. v. (legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
           to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
     8. n. The act of levying.
     9. n. The tax, property or people so levied.
     10. n. (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.

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Example Sentences

The airport improvement levy seems higher than last year. 



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