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Definition
a charge imposedMore 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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