LEVY (levied)

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Irregular inflected form: levied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does levy mean? 

• LEVY (noun)
  The noun LEVY has 2 senses:

1. a charge imposed and collected

2. the act of drafting into military service

  Familiarity information: LEVY used as a noun is rare.

• LEVY (verb)
  The verb LEVY has 2 senses:

1. impose and collect

2. cause to assemble or enlist in the military

  Familiarity information: LEVY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEVY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A charge imposed and collected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("levy" is a kind of...):

charge (financial liabilities (such as a tax))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "levy"):

revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)

tithe (a levy of one tenth of something)

Derivation:

levy (impose and collect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of drafting into military service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

levy; levy en masse

Hypernyms ("levy" is a kind of...):

conscription; draft; muster; selective service (compulsory military service)

Derivation:

levy (cause to assemble or enlist in the military)

• LEVY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they levy    ... he / she / it levies   
Past simple: levied   
Past participle: levied   
-ing form: levying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impose and collect

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

impose; levy

Context example:

levy a fine

Hypernyms (to "levy" is one way to...):

bill; charge (demand payment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "levy"):

toll (charge a fee for using)

tithe (levy a tithe on (produce or a crop))

reimpose (impose anew)

lay (impose as a duty, burden, or punishment)

mulct (impose a fine on)

tax (levy a tax on)

distrain (levy a distress on)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

levy (a charge imposed and collected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to assemble or enlist in the military

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

levy; raise; recruit

Context example:

recruit new soldiers

Hypernyms (to "levy" is one way to...):

draft; enlist; muster in (engage somebody to enter the army)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

levy (the act of drafting into military service)

 Context examples 

And beyond him again there is tribute to be levied from the Cham of Tartary and from the kingdom of Cathay.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The other most obvious explanation is that the child has been kidnapped for the purpose of levying ransom.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scientists also recommend caps on antibiotic use and levying user fees on buyers of farm antibiotics which would effectively make it more expensive and discourage excessive use.

(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)

The pension from each family for the education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor’s officers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It seems that William had secretly followed his two masters on the night when they made their raid upon Mr. Acton’s, and having thus got them into his power, proceeded, under threats of exposure, to levy blackmail upon them.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

De Borhunte was up in the east, and Sir John de Montague in the west. Sir Luke de Ponynges, Sir Thomas West, Sir Maurice de Bruin, Sir Arthur Lipscombe, Sir Walter Ramsey, and stout Sir Oliver Buttesthorn were all marching south with levies from Andover, Arlesford, Odiham and Winchester, while from Sussex came Sir John Clinton, Sir Thomas Cheyne, and Sir John Fallislee, with a troop of picked men-at-arms, making for their port at Southampton.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is certain also, that the brave and worthy Bertrand de Guesclin hath ridden into France to the Duke of Anjou, and purposes to take back with him great levies from Picardy and Brittany.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“These are the levies of France, for I can see the ensigns of the Marshal d'Andreghen, with that of the Lord of Antoing and of Briseuil, and of many another from Brittany and Anjou.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)