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What (who) is Lévy - definition
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Lévy; Levies; Levy (disambiguation); Levying; Lévy (disambiguation)
Levying
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Levy.
levy
['l?vi]
¦ noun (plural levies)
1. the imposition of a tax, fee, fine, or subscription.
a sum of money raised by levying.
2. an item or items of property seized to satisfy a legal judgement.
3. archaic a body of enlisted troops.
¦ verb (levies, levying, levied)
1. impose or seize as a levy.
2. archaic enlist for military service.
3. archaic begin to wage (war).
Derivatives
leviable adjective
Origin
ME: from OFr. levee, feminine past participle of lever 'raise', from L. levare, from levis 'light'.
levy
(levies, levying, levied)
1.
A levy is a sum of money that you have to pay, for example as a tax to the government.
...an annual motorway levy on all drivers.
N-COUNT
2.
If a government or organization levies a tax or other sum of money, it demands it from people or organizations.
They levied religious taxes on Christian commercial transactions...
Taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament.
VERB: V n on n, V n
Examples of use of Lévy
1. AMERICAN VERTIGO: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville By Bernard–Henri Lévy
2. French intellectual Bernard–Henri Lévy roams across the US, seeking to uncover its soul.
3. The man, Marc Lévy, a French citizen, has found the perfect Paris in London or, more precisely, in SW7.
4. Warning: may feature ukeleles. 12 The Sheer Gaul Late–night discussion with Michel Houellebecq and Bernard–Henri Lévy.
5. I recently heard the French philosopher Bernard–Henri Lévy going through some impressive intellectual contortions to explain why he opposed any laws restricting criticism of religion but supported those on Holocaust denial.