Crossword-Solution: LEVY
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| Levy | n. | A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d. |
| Levy | n. | The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc. |
| Levy | n. | That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc. |
| Levy | n. | The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution. |
| Levy | v. t. | To raise, as a siege. |
| Levy | v. t. | To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc. |
| Levy | v. t. | To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions. |
| Levy | v. t. | To gather or exact; as, to levy money. |
| Levy | v. t. | To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc. |
| Levy | v. t. | To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution. |
| Levy | v. i. | To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LEVY | anagram | VLEY |
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Sentences with LEVY (5)
Though there have been memorable gang bangs (e.g., that over-the-weekend assembler port mentioned in Steven Levy's `Hackers'), most are perpetrated by large companies trying to meet deadlines and produce enormous buggy masses of code entirely lacking in {orthogonal}ity.
Howard Armstrong inventor of the regenerative detector, super-regeneration and the supersonic heterodyne receiver, though the French claim that the superhet was first designed by Lucien Levy of Paris.
The Abbot, esteem'd a holy man, Will hold what he has and grasp what he can; The cream of the soil he loves to skim, Why not levy a contribution on him? Dagobert: The stranger speaks well; not far away That convent lies; and one summer's day Will suffice for a horseman to reach the gate; The garrison soon would capitulate, Since the armed retainers are next to none, And the walls, I wot, may be quickly won.
They did not foresee, these ingenuous legislators, that if property is retainable by intent alone--_nudo animo_--it carries with it the right to let, to lease, to loan at interest, to profit by exchange, to settle annuities, and to levy a tax on a field which intent reserves, while the body is busy elsewhere.
Having first ruined the master by good housekeeping, it at last comes to levy contributions as an inn.
Quotes with LEVY (3)
Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.
Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)
A government always finds itself obliged to resort to inflationary measures when it cannot negotiate loans and dare not levy taxes, because it has reason to fear that it will forfeit approval of the policy it is following if it reveals too soon the financial and general economic consequences of that policy. Thus inflation becomes the most important psychological resource of any economic policy whose consequences have to be concealed; and so in this sense it can be called an i…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 200 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).