levy
English
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Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman leve, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).
Verb
levy (third-person singular simple present lev, present participle ies, simple past and past participle levied)
- To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
- to levy a tax
- 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian[1]:
- In August, the company also announced that it would begin to levy fines on other vendors on its platform who over-package their products.
- To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
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- If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.
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- To draft someone into military service.
- To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
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- Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
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- To wage war.
- To raise, as a siege.
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- (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
- to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
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Translations
to impose a tax
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to impose a fine
to confiscate property
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to raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority
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to draft into military service
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to wage war
Noun
levy (plural levies)
- The act of levying.
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- A levy of all the men left under sixty.
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- The tax, property or people so levied.
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- The Irish levies.
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Translations
act of levying
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tax, property or people so levied
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Etymology 2
Contraction of elevenpence.
Noun
levy (plural levies)
- (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
See also
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
lev- + -y; stem from leveä (“wide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
levy
- plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)
- board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)
- slab (thick, flat piece of material)
- disk (device for storing data)
- recording (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)
Declension
| Inflection of levy (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | levy | levyt | ||
| genitive | levyn | levyjen | ||
| partitive | levyä | levyjä | ||
| illative | levyyn | levyihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | levy | levyt | ||
| accusative | nom. | levy | levyt | |
| gen. | levyn | |||
| genitive | levyn | levyjen | ||
| partitive | levyä | levyjä | ||
| inessive | levyssä | levyissä | ||
| elative | levystä | levyistä | ||
| illative | levyyn | levyihin | ||
| adessive | levyllä | levyillä | ||
| ablative | levyltä | levyiltä | ||
| allative | levylle | levyille | ||
| essive | levynä | levyinä | ||
| translative | levyksi | levyiksi | ||
| abessive | levyttä | levyittä | ||
| instructive | — | levyin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Synonyms
- (plate): laatta
- (musical recording): levytys (music); savikiekko, vinyyli, äänilevy (physical disc)
Hyponyms
- (recording): älppäri, pitkäsoittolevy, single
Derived terms
Compounds
- aaltolevy
- akustiikkalevy
- alkiolevy
- aluslevy
- asbestilevy
- asteikkolevy
- astelevy
- emolevy
- gramofonilevy
- jarrulevy
- kiintolevy
- kipsilevy
- koekytkentälevy
- kosketuslevy
- kovalevy
- kuitulevy
- kytkinlevy
- lastulevy
- levyasema
- levyautomaatti
- levykuva
- levylautanen
- levypallo
- levytanko
- levy-yhtiö
- LP-levy
- ohutlevy
- ohkolevy
- piirilevy
- pitkäsoittolevy
- platinalevy
- suklaalevy
- suuntimalevy
- taustalevy
- vinyylilevy
- välilevy
- äänilevy
References
- Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
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