levy

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Known to policy wonks as the estate tax, this levy is a punitive form of double taxation that penalizes people for trying to create a nest egg for their children.

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  1. transitive verb To impose or collect (a tax, for example).
  2. transitive verb To draft into military service.
  3. transitive verb To declare and wage (a war).
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  • Marie said she feels another levy is the district's only option too. —  zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News
  • That recordable media levy is the main reason that Canada doesn't have a DMCA. —  Slashdot: Your Rights Online
  • The central question is whether the levy is a "tax on residents." —  Market News
  • Even though the levy was approved, said between $200,000 and $300,000 will have to be cut from the district's budget due to state funding cuts and declining enrollment.
  • Until recently corkage in Ireland has been seen as a holistic charge applied to the opening and serving of a bottle of wine in a unique location and for some bizarre reason not dissimilar to the Irish Government duties, an extra levy was applied to sparkling wines. —  ireland.com Breaking News
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English levien, from leve, levy, tax, from Old French levee, from feminine past participle of lever, to raise; see lever.

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  1. Early modern English also leavy; from Middle English levy, levey, from Old French levee, French levée, a raising, an embankment (see levee), rising, breaking up, removal, a raising (of troops, of taxes, etc.), = Spanish levada, a rising, attack, = Portuguese levada, a current of water, transport, = Italian levata, raising, rising, departure, from Middle Latin levata, something raised or levied, tax, exaction, quota, embankment, properly feminine of Latin levatus, past participle of levare, raise: see levant.
  2. Formerly also levey (and leave, q. v.); from late Middle English levyen; from levy, n., in part directly (properly only in the obsolete form leave) from French lever, raise: see levy, n., levant.
  3. An abbreviation of eleven-penny bit.
 

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