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Definition of levy:

  • (noun) a charge imposed and collected
  • (noun) the act of drafting into military service
  • (verb) impose and collect; "levy a fine"
  • (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in the military

Sentence Examples:

We spoke of many things, and I gave him a full account of the composition and strength of our levies.

The King, on his part, was not asleep, but to arm or levy forces yet, he thought, would but show fear, and do this idol too much worship.

The latter had succeeded in securing a thousand men of his uncle's veterans who had settled in Campania; and by great exertions in the different towns of Italy had levied a considerable force.

They were warned that, if they refused, their boards would be dissolved and the rates levied by the authority of the Commissioners.

Caesar now proceeded to teach the cities a lesson by levying money and taking away the remnant of authority over their citizens that they possessed in their assemblies.

This is, indeed, a tax of a very particular kind, a tax without limits, and to be levied at the discretion of him for whose benefit it is paid.

The power now proposed to be granted, is nothing less than the power of levying money, or what is exactly equivalent, the power of raising the money in their own hands, to any imaginary value.

She, in the meantime, ordered levies of troops to the amount of some thousands, the command of which was given to the nobles on whose attachment she could reckon.

I also gave my pony and a note to one of the levies, whom I sent back with a report to Colonel Kelly, who, on receiving it, had work on the other bridge knocked off, as it was no longer wanted.

Indeed, there was scarcely any limit to them, except that he had no power to levy and collect taxes, and seize the property of the mixed races who dwelt in the land of oranges and flowers.

When he had arrived there, he levies soldiers upon the states, and orders them to assemble at an appointed place.

Then, whenever he would see such a ship pass by, he would issue forth in his own ships and seize upon that other vessel, and either levy toll upon it or sink it with all upon board.

He had travelled thence for a few hundred yards along a straight strip of road running over level ground, and so with the levies of Dir to escort him he swung round to the left.

Suppose that I wanted to be a soldier, not an officer of my levies, but a soldier in your army with a soldier's chances of promotion and high rank!

At the gate he reduced the trot to a walk, and so, with his two levies behind him, passed up along the streets like a man utterly undisturbed.

If this could be ascertained with certainty, the objection would with more propriety be reserved for the law so applying the proceeds, but surely can not be urged against the laws levying the duty.

The right to make treaties, declare war, levy taxes, exercise exclusive judicial and legislative powers, were all of them functions of sovereign power.

He treated them in general as if they were already slaves, levying money upon them as he had upon subject nations.

Then, to make up the deficiency in income, we ought to levy upon absolutely all instruments which produce any profit for the men who possess them, and we should exact taxes from all whom we rule.

If it confined itself to its natural food, the farmer's grain, the tax which it levies on the country would still be such as no free people ought to endure.

He, of his own accord, was the author and executor of his plan of levying an army, and arraying a defense for us.

This county assembly was known as the "court of levy and appeal," or more briefly as the levy court.

"And," replied Scarborough, "at the end of the year we expect to levy another assessment of a thousand a share."

There were two small regiments of regular infantry, the rest of the army being composed of six months' levies and of militia ordered out for this particular campaign.

The taxes and so forth mentioned in this list are by no means all that were levied, but are a fair representation of them.

A lodge has a right to levy such annual contribution for membership as the majority of the Brethren see fit.

The separate states alone could levy duties, and a good many tariff restrictions on freedom of trade among them developed in this period.

Who is to receive the benefits and upon whom, and how shall new taxes be levied to pay the cost?

The federal government levies no general property tax, but the other branches of government receive about three-fifths of all their revenues from it.

The exemption laws allowed only a certain number of gentle horses, and as any class of range horses had a cash value then, this brand of horses was levied on to satisfy the judgment.

A regular supply depended on trade and commerce, or on tribute levied and collected periodically from associated or dependent peoples.

The words which the levies used and the language in which they spoke them rose naturally to her lips, as the only words and language suitable to the occasion.

Just before you came in the conductor levied on all my goods in transit and claimed the right to seize your case of milk for the benefit of the passengers.

A case was then sent to the Advocate-General, and he held that the Municipality were exceeding their powers in levying such a charge.

It is only his need for traveling in light marching order that made him so moderate in the tax he levied.

Despite all protest the king persisted in levying strange taxes and was to some extent able to collect them.

The grove was levied on, a change of axe-men took place, while the team even felt a new impetus by making, instead of one, two round trips daily.

If salaries are but a fair compensation for the time and labor of the officer, it is gross injustice to levy a tax upon them.

I say "dealing with the national debt" because, as will be clear, as a system of raising money for the war the suggestion of the levy on capital has little or nothing to recommend it.

Already we were passing groups of fugitives from the nearer country, and the town would be full of them, to say nothing of the men of the levy.

And between the levy and that crowd of followers was a great gap, and some of these last were making for the shelter of swamp and wood.

And that was what we longed for, for as, yet we had no post in the levy, and we told him as much.

Very stiff and sore were we when we had rested for a little, and there fell a sadness on the levy, now that the joy of battle had gone, and the cost of victory must be counted.

And thanking him, I said that that was likely, for I knew few in the levy, which came from far and wide.

Then I said that the levy would beat them off easily enough; but the old warrior shook his head.

The rate of taxation levied for schools in many Southern communities is now among the highest in the United States.

I watched for a while, for it was ill giving a false alarm and turning out our unwilling levies for naught, for each time they came up it grew harder to keep them, and each time fewer came.

Pliny proposed to borrow, not because he needed the money, but because he liked to levy contributions upon any available party, with a very faint idea of repaying the same.

He afterwards discovered that the greater barons claimed the right to camp nearest the king, and that the king's levy was just behind their booths.

Like most of his fellows, when war came so close home, he was almost obliged to join the king's levy.

One day he saw a knight coolly trip up a citizen (one of the king's levy) in the midst of the camp and in broad daylight, and quietly cut away his purse, at least a score of persons looking on.

The collection of taxes was enforced by suits at law, with enormous expense; and executions, levies, and distresses were of every-day occurrence.

The same body of men are held responsible for the levying and collecting of taxes and for the spending of the money.

His first proposal was to form the country into districts, with a relief committee in each, empowered to receive subscriptions, levy rates, and receive donations from the Government.

He, meanwhile, was continuing his own preparations by strenuous endeavors to levy more troops and to obtain fresh supplies.

Ellis was one of their number; he levied a twenty-five assessment, and tipped the waiter a dollar and a half.

For this purpose all the necessary orders and commissions were made out immediately in the name of Gonzalo Pizarro, by which Carvajal was authorized to levy what men and money he might deem necessary.

The Examiner of Plays received a salary from the Chamberlain for the labor he performed; why should he levy a tax upon managers and authors, and so be paid twice over for the same work?

The term levying war has the sense here which it was understood to have in the English statute, from which it was adopted.

When war is levied, all who perform a part, however remote from the scene of action, being leagued in the conspiracy, commit treason.

As it is to the advantage of the owners of the ships to get large returns from their vessels, they are not troubled at being obliged to pay the small fine levied on them by the city.

The Massachusetts levies began to assemble, and Howe took the raw lads in hand, and began to drill them with a wonderful success.

The trouble is on account of the new war taxes which the Government has levied and to which the people are much opposed.

Here and there he met people travelling under imperial passes that gave them the use of the road and a right of free levy for subsistence, often much abused.

No fresh taxation to be levied on the mines until the Financial Adviser has laid his proposals before the Government.

The principal credit was due to the Royal Air Force, but the native levies had also done their part effectively.

It is in the levying of taxes that the sovereign and the subject act as if they were of opposite interests, or rather as if they were enemies to each other.

The taxes are levied by the authority and decree of parliament; and are in general so framed as to bear lightly on the poor, and that every person should pay in proportion to his income.

How tempting this source of revenue was proving we see from a provision of the Great Charter which forbids the levy of more than the ancient customs on merchants entering or leaving the realm.

The pension from each family, for the education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor's officers.

If one cannot have a levy complete at the time of imposition, it clearly ought not to be launched at a time of rapidly changing prices.

Taxes in kind were levied even more largely than in money, but the exact form they assumed in the different regions of the empire has not yet been ascertained.

The Asiatics might, indeed, have got over these things, but he levied, in addition, immense contributions from the Asiatics, and is said to have raised over forty thousand talents.

The emperor sent also a financial agent to levy the taxes and return the money to the imperial chest.

Murder can be avenged by a murder so long as the trouble remains a family affair, but if the case goes to the ruler it is probable that he will levy a fine on the culprit.

I was so resolute in the matter that I had some difficulty to keep from opening them myself and levying duty upon their contents.

And John knew that if he and Bob escaped with horses before ten o'clock, they could reach the Ridge in time to sign the levy before midnight.

What if the people who were already levying taxes in the districts of Narbonne and N?mes had found as easy a victory over the vineyards of southern France, as they had over those of Spain?

A special war tax is to be levied in provinces where the whole population or certain groups of the population are freed from military service.

How the war taxes should be levied (direct versus indirect taxation) and who shall be the taxpayers, were among the chief topics discussed at its recent meetings.

Few can pay it; it is proposed, therefore, to allow no landlord to levy it either before the close of the siege or before December.

The sailors, the soldiers of the line, and levies of peasants which formed the Mobiles, fought with decent courage.

A tax is levied on the camp for the tobacco smoked there, which is no small quantity, and the women are obliged to furnish wood and water daily.

The taxes are to be levied under the same denomination from all the subjects of my empire, without distinction of class or of religion.

Entries of gifts to the Corporation, and of fines levied on the members, also form part of the annual statements.

The City will be held responsible for disobedience to this order: the guilty ones will be pursued and shot; the City will be levied for considerable contributions.

If more young men are wanted for the army I can see him levying the whole of the women in the country for work on the farms and in the offices or its shops.

There were taxes for public works, but rotten pavements went on rotting year after year; and when a bridge was to be built, special taxes were levied.

An external tax is a duty levied on commodities imported; that duty is added to the first cost, and other charges on the commodity, and when it is offered for sale, makes a part of the price.

These must be the unconscious tribute to the Genius of Holiness, as to any other sort of genius; never an enforced levy upon us.

The tax or levy of the government for its part in the protection must be met, so that even gold and silver must also gradually slip away.

Though taxes are levied upon property it is a delusion to think that those who own no property pay no taxes.

Internal taxes, yielding twofold the amount collected from customs, were levied, and cheerfully paid, and duties on imported goods were quickly increased.

I believe that we shall make a tough fight of it, but I can hardly hope that our new levies can prove a match for the veterans of Frederick Charles.

The fees are to be raised, but the increase cannot be levied upon me; it only applies to those who have not commenced their studies at the period of raising.

These articles amounted to more than the assessments levied on the members, but Tom and I made up the balance.

In the absence of any authority to levy taxes, he had resorted to the practice of coining money, and had established mints in several places through the realm.

The diet just dissolved had passed an act providing for the levy of new taxes to be paid in silver, and the king apparently had been given power to fix the mode in which the levy should be made.

The provision for paying the tribute, levied on all, for the support of the Temple, added to the distraction.

White levied first upon the horse then in the possession of Smedley, taking him under one of the two writs: he then levied the other execution upon the horse which Smedley had traded to Wyatt.