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Definition

a charge imposed

More rarely, levy can denote enlisting or drafting soldiers, or making war, or seizing property in accordance with a legal judgment. All these senses of the word involve having legal authority to take from others.

levy a fine

Taxes should be levied based on ability to pay.
A mere trader ought not to grumble at the tolls levied by a mighty king.
Joseph Conrad -- The Mirror of the Sea
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
He importunes, persecutes one, and levies a regular tax on all travellers.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
It is a bargain not unfrequently levied in love.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Trust to thy single virtue; for thy soldiers, All levied in my name, have in my name Took their discharge.
William Shakespeare -- King Lear
He went out to levy on the village—not with a begging-bowl, which might do for down-country, but in the manner of a prince.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
Stephen Levy, a linguist at Queen Mary University, London, states that popular notions of like merely as a "filler or fumble" are inaccurate.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
I'll levy thine attendance: Why waste so vainly thy resplendence?
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
The shopman told me they were so many levies.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Mallisters still hold Seagard and Walder Frey is marshaling his levies at the Twins.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
If we had reason to fear these levies even before Richard's return, trowest thou there is any doubt now which party their leaders will take?
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
Wes turned down Edmondson Avenue, walking toward his friend Levy's house.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
Ely with Richmond troubles me more near Than Buckingham and his rash-levied strength.
William Shakespeare -- The Life and Death of King Richard III
The NFL hadn't yet begun to levy big fines for fights, and Wallace had taken full advantage of the freebies.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
So Levy quietly organized an experimental antipoverty program far away from the capital, in Campeche, where it wouldn't arouse interest or opposition.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
By heavens! it made them heroic; and it made them pathetic too in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
The community pressure levied against him would have sent me to an asylum.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
Young Lord Hunter and his levies had joined the others two days past.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows

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