noun, verb
noun (plural levies) ~ (on sth) an extra amount of money that has to be paid, especially as a tax to the government:
to put / impose a levy on oil imports
verb (levies, levying, levied, levied) [VN] ~ sth (on sb/sth) to use official authority to demand and collect a payment, tax, etc:
a tax levied by the government on excess company profits
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for levy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does levy appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — levy appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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