levy
levy 英 [ˈlevi] 美 [ˈlɛvi]
n. 征收；征税 v. 征收；征税
进行时:levying 过去式:levied 过去分词:levied 第三人称单数:levies 名词复数:levies
- Use the word levy as you would use the word tax: “When the state government imposed a levy on soft drinks, thousands of citizens took to the streets in protest.”
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- n. 征收；征税
- v. 征收；征税
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1. to put a levy on oil imports, to impose a levy on oil imports
对进口石油征税
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2. a tax levied by the government
政府对公司征收的税
- levy (n.1) "an act of levying, a raising or collecting of anything" (a tax, debt, fine, etc.), early 15c., from Anglo-French leve (mid-13c.), Old French levée "a raising, lifting; levying," noun use of fem. past participle of lever "to raise" (from PIE root *legwh- "not heavy, having little weight").
- levy (n.2) 1829, colloquial shortening of elevenpence (see eleven). In U.S. before c. 1860, a Spanish real or an equivalent amount of some other money (about 12 and a half cents).
- levy (v.) early 13c., "to raise or collect" (by authority or compulsion), from Anglo-French leve, from Old French levée "act of raising," noun use of fem. past participle of lever "to raise" (from PIE root *legwh- "not heavy, having little weight;" compare levee). Originally of taxes, later of men for armies (c. 1500). Related: Levied; levying.
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