Meaning of Levy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from French, equivalent to English Levy.
2. The act of levying.
3. A surname from Irish.
4. 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
5. A conscription action.
6. A Jewish surname from Hebrew.
7. The things or people so levied.
8. A tax.
9. A tax paid in money.
10. A male given name.
11. A tax in kind.
12. Requisitioned supplies.
13. A body of conscripts.
14. A shilling.
    obsolete, slang

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Examples

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

“The Irish levies.”

“The first is that French people are more concerned about the poor health of their democracy – since the carbon levy they have campaigned for democratic reform (though this has proven harder to deliver than the tax U-turn).”

“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].”

“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.”

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