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toll
A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
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  1. A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
  2. A charge for a service, such as a telephone call to another country.
  3. A charge for service or extra service, as for transportation, for a long-distance telephone call, or, formerly, for having one's grain milled
duty
Active military service:
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  1. Active military service:
  2. The compulsion felt to meet such obligation:
  3. Required action or service:
custom
(Law) Such usage as by common consent and long-established, uniform practice has taken on the force of law
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  1. (Law) Such usage as by common consent and long-established, uniform practice has taken on the force of law
  2. Habitual patronage, as of a store:
  3. Habitual manner or practice:
assess
To require stockholders and partners to fill the need for additional capital by making additional contributions to their corporation or partnership.
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  1. To require stockholders and partners to fill the need for additional capital by making additional contributions to their corporation or partnership.
  2. To set or determine the amount of (a payment, such as a tax or fine).
  3. To determine the value of something, especially of real estate for property tax purposes. See also appraise.
exact
To call for; make necessary; require
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  1. To call for; make necessary; require
  2. To inflict (vengeance or punishment, for example).
  3. To demand and get by authority or force; insist on
impose
To force (oneself, one's presence or will, etc.) on another or others without right or invitation; obtrude
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  1. To force (oneself, one's presence or will, etc.) on another or others without right or invitation; obtrude
  2. To force oneself on or take unfair advantage of others:
  3. (Archaic) To place; put; deposit
put
To force the purchase of (a stock or commodity) by exercising a put option.
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  1. To force the purchase of (a stock or commodity) by exercising a put option.
  2. To adapt:
  3. (Sports) To hurl with an overhand pushing motion:
conscript
To enroll for compulsory service in the armed forces; draft
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  1. To enroll for compulsory service in the armed forces; draft
  2. To force (labor, capital, etc.) into service for the government
draft
To persuade or compel (a person) to become a candidate for public office
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  1. To persuade or compel (a person) to become a candidate for public office
  2. To create by thinking and writing; compose:
  3. (Sports) To select (a player) during or in a draft
induct
To admit as a member; receive.
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  1. To admit as a member; receive.
  2. To place in a benefice or official position with formality or ceremony; install
  3. To place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; install:
conscription
A monetary payment exacted by a government in wartime.
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  1. A monetary payment exacted by a government in wartime.
  2. Compulsory enrollment, especially for the armed forces; draft.
draft
The act of drawing in a fishing net.
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  1. The act of drawing in a fishing net.
  2. The demand made by a political party for a person to accept, sometimes reluctantly, a candidacy
  3. Any of various stages in the development of a plan, document, or picture:
induction
The generation of an electric current in a conductor, such as a copper wire, by exposing it to the electric field of an electrically charged conductor.
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  1. The generation of an electric current in a conductor, such as a copper wire, by exposing it to the electric field of an electrically charged conductor.
  2. The act or an instance of inducting.
  3. (Physics) The act or process by which an electric or magnetic effect is produced in an electrical conductor or magnetizable body when it is exposed to the influence or variation of a field of force
assessment
An amount assessed
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  1. An amount assessed
  2. The act of assessing; appraisal.
  3. The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
duty
Any action, task, etc. required by or relating to one's occupation or position
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  1. Any action, task, etc. required by or relating to one's occupation or position
  2. Required action or service:
  3. A payment due to the government, esp. a tax imposed on imports, exports, or manufactured goods
impost
(Sports) The weight a horse must carry in a handicap race.
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  1. (Sports) The weight a horse must carry in a handicap race.
  2. Something, such as a tax or duty, that is imposed.
  3. A tax; esp., a duty on imported goods
tariff
A list or system of taxes placed by a government upon exports or, esp., imports
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  1. A list or system of taxes placed by a government upon exports or, esp., imports
  2. A duty or duties so imposed.
  3. A tax of this kind, or its rate
tax
A special assessment, as in a society, labor union, etc.
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  1. A special assessment, as in a society, labor union, etc.
  2. A fee or dues levied on the members of an organization to meet its expenses.
  3. A compulsory payment, usually a percentage, levied on income, property value, sales price, etc. for the support of a government
Find another word for levy. In this page you can discover 27 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for levy, like: toll, duty, custom, tax, assess, exact, impose, put, conscript, draft and induct.

Sentence Examples

  • A general military levy was occasionally made.

  • The university fund is derived from special taxes levied for the four institutions which receive aid from the state; in 1909 the levy was 0.245 mills and the total receipts were $582,843.

  • Levy Bruhl, History of Modern Philos.

  • With the whole available feudal levy of England, and a contingent from Ireland, he advanced from Berwick to Falkirk, which he reached on the 22nd of June 1314.

  • On the 1 ith, on his motion, a decree was passed by acclamation for a levy of 200,000 men and the raising of £4,500,000 for the defence of the independence of the country.

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