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US
/ˈɫɛvi, ˈɫivi/
]
[ UK /lˈɛvi/ ]
[ UK /lˈɛvi/ ]
NOUN
- the act of drafting into military service
- a charge imposed and collected
VERB
-
impose and collect
levy a fine -
cause to assemble or enlist in the military
recruit new soldiers
raise an army
How To Use levy In A Sentence
- Here were found a number of statues bearing cuniform inscriptions, Hittite inscriptions and two long Aramean inscriptions of the VIII or IX century B.C. M. Helévy, the well-known French Orientalist, was sent by the The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
- _Catty. _ (_speaking very rapidly_) Bless you for that word, counshillor; and by the first light to-morrow, I'll drive all the grazing cattle, every four-footed _baast_ off the land, and pound 'em in Ballynavogue; and if they replevy, why I'll distrain again, if it be forty times, I will go. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
- In 2009, an Salvadorean illegal immigrant named Ingmar Guandique was arrested and charged with Levy's murder. Report: Chandra Levy-linked ex-congressman Gary Condit writing tell-all book
- Levy grinned and I knew, in his head, he was tickling her tonsils. Shortcut Man
- I've harped on about this before, but was interested in Bryan Caplan's critqiue of the Levy-Peart project: I'm going after analytical egalitarians because they're wasting their talent and energy defending the undefendable. Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Tesco alone has said it expects the new levy to reduce bag use by 88 million.
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- The Constitution has a very narrow definition of treason: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. May 2005
- 17 The writ, literally “for replevying a man,” was a means of procuring the release of a prisoner—an earlier equivalent of the writ of habeas corpus. A History of American Law
- bedevil" government's privatisation plans, industrial relations and human resources company NMG-Levy said on Wednesday. ANC Daily News Briefing