noun / verb
levy
LEV-ee/lˈɛvi/
A required payment to an authority, or its imposition or collection.
The collector levies a tax on the merchant's goods.
Etymology
Raising here means raising money through authority or compulsion. Taxes were the original English application, so the financial sense preserves this early meaning rather than a recent metaphor.
In context
levy the Pingru tax and border spring donation. Then order all prefectures to collect 3 years of tea and salt taxes in advance.
More examples
- Several levies funded the work.
- The authority levied a fee.
- Officials are levying the charge.
Forms
levy · levies · levied · levying
Similar words
- tax
- A particular kind of required public payment.
- assessment
- An imposed charge or determination of an amount.