levy

«levy» in Mova's school dictionary: a tax or charge that people or companies must pay — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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

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

• 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

• In 1994 pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, leaving dark scars bigger than the Earth.
• 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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «levy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.