Usually means: Imposing or collecting taxes, fees.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. levy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Levy, levy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. levy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. levy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. levy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Levy, levy: Wordnik
  7. levy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Levy, levy: Wiktionary
  9. levy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. levy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. levy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. levy: Dictionary.com
  13. levy (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. levy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Levy (disambiguation), Levy (ice hockey team), Levy (surname), Levy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Levy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. levy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. levy: Rhymezone
  19. Levy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. levy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. LEVY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. levy: Free Dictionary
  23. levy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. levy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. levy: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. levy: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. LEVY: Accounting Glossary
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Levy: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Levy: Investopedia
  11. Levy: INSOLVENCY
  12. levy: Legal dictionary
  13. levy: Financial dictionary
  14. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. levy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. levy: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Levy: Easton Bible
  2. LEVY: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. levy, levy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. levy: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

(Note: See levied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
verb:  To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
verb:  To draft someone into military service.
verb:  To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
verb:  To wage war.
verb:  To raise, as a siege.
verb:  (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
noun:  The act of levying.
noun:  The tax, property, or people so levied.
noun:  (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
noun:  A surname from Irish.
noun:  A Jewish surname from Hebrew.
noun:  A male given name

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