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Levy

name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.
  2. 2
    A Jewish surname from Hebrew.

    "On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology. […] Till is somewhere on the Hemsworth spectrum (more engaging than Liam; not as charismatic at Chris), but Levy is wholly charming as his enthusiastic sidekick."

  3. 3
    A male given name.
Noun
  1. 1
    The act of levying.
  2. 2
    The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence. Pennsylvania, US, Virginia, obsolete
  3. 3
    the act of drafting into military service wordnet
  4. 4
    The act of levying.; A conscription action.

    "1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece A levy of all the men left under sixty."

  5. 5
    a charge imposed and collected wordnet
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  1. 6
    The things or people so levied.; A tax.; A tax paid in money.

    "The Irish levies."

  2. 7
    The things or people so levied.; A tax.; A tax in kind.
  3. 8
    The things or people so levied.; Requisitioned supplies.
  4. 9
    The things or people so levied.; A body of conscripts.

    "To make up for their losses at the battle they [the professional army of Harold II, Anglo-Saxon King of England] had gathered levies of men from the counties they passed through on their way south. […] Ranged alongside these professionals were the levies: farmers and peasants, for the most part, who had been straggling in from all over the southern counties during the previous few days [before the Battle of Hastings in 1066]."

  5. 10
    A shilling. obsolete, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. transitive

    "to levy a tax"

  2. 2
    cause to assemble or enlist in military wordnet
  3. 3
    To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.

    "If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied."

  4. 4
    impose and collect wordnet
  5. 5
    To draft someone into military service.
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  1. 6
    To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.

    "Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them."

  2. 7
    To wage war.
  3. 8
    To raise, as a siege.

    "Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied"

  4. 9
    To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

    "The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).

Etymology 3

Contraction of elevenpence.

Etymology 4

* As a Jewish surname, a variant of the biblical name Levi. Compare Lowy. * As a Czech surname, from the adjective levý (“left”). * Also a shortening of Irish Mac Duinnshléibhe (“son of the chief on the mountain”), from mac (“son”) + donn (“noble”) + sliabh (“mountain”).

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