levy
part of speech
noun (a levy, levies); verb (levy, levies, levied, levying)
meaning for a pupil
1) A levy is a tax or charge that people or companies must pay. tree →
2) To levy a tax or fine is to make people pay it. tree →
3) (history) A levy was also a group of soldiers called up to fight. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A levy is a share taken from the spoil of war and given to God. In the time of the kings it also meant a group of workers called up from the people for the king's service, with an officer set over it. Interpretation: The tradition reads the levy as dedicating part of the victory to God. Solomon's levy of thirty thousand men is told as a heavy burden on the people. In the primary lessons: Used in news, adult life and money lessons: a sugar levy on fizzy drinks, a plastic bag levy. In history: a king levied taxes or levied troops. Phrases: levy a tax, impose a levy.
examples
- and levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the flocks; (Torah NUM.31.28, JPS 1917) tree →
- and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; (Prophets 2SA.20.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy. (Prophets 1KI.4.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. (Prophets 1KI.5.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- The government put a levy on sugary drinks. tree →
- Shops charge a small levy for plastic bags. tree →
- The king levied a tax on wool. tree →
- The council levied a fine on the builder. tree →
- A levy of soldiers was raised for the war. tree →
- Part of the price goes to the levy. tree →
- But don't you levy taxes too early." tree →
note
Plural: levies. Past: levied. It is a formal word; in everyday talk people say «tax» or «charge». In a maths problem, a levy is an extra amount added to the price, so you add it.
In the corpora
- and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
- and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.
- And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
- Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the levy; and all Israel stoned him with stones, so that he died.
- In 1994 pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, leaving dark scars bigger than the Earth.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «levy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.