Synonym: impose, levy en masse, raise, recruit. Similar words: level, levity, eleven, clever, alleviate, leviathan, all levels, elevator. Meaning: ['levɪ] n. 1. a charge imposed and collected 2. the act of drafting into military service. v. 1. impose and collect 2. cause to assemble or enlist in the military.
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31. The levy, which reduces in real terms year on year, will raise a total of £9.1 billion.
32. Each Board was financed by a levy on the relevant industry.
33. Car owners who take their old vehicles to designated scrapyards will be entitled to rebates on the levy.
34. It was the first deaf club in the country to levy an annual subscription charge.
35. It is normal for the franchisor to charge the franchisee an advertising levy for promoting the product and the franchise.
36. The proceeds of the levy were expected to amount to £80 million in a full year.
37. Using the 1986 figures, a 3 percent levy on holdings over £100,000 would generate £3.7 billion a year.
38. A half-speed recorder would effectively halve the rate of tax that consumers would pay, should a levy be introduced.
39. A levy of some sort is essential, so that the industry plays a major part in all training.
40. Ministers have been told that the present Levy Order does not explicitly provide for the recovery of levy from live lamb exports.
41. The second objective was met by the introduction of a betterment levy on development value.
42. They also hope pragmatic derogation of the Climate Change Levy can help boost supplies to commercial and industrial customers.
43. However it does not levy a general sales tax; sales taxes are the bread and butter of most state governments.
44. A unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors is required to levy such a sales tax, which doesn't seem likely.
45. The group expresses support for the introduction of a levy on electricity consumers to finance renewable-energy projects.
46. Representative David Bard of Pennsylvania proposed that the national government levy a tax on each slave imported.
47. Government might levy a specific tax which equals or approximates the spillover costs per unit of output.
48. Whereas if he raised it through a levy on Copts that would be wildly popular with everyone else.
49. The Life Companies shall pay a levy of £10,000 perannum for each appointed representative they employ.
50. If lump sum taxes are straight forward to levy and cheap to administer, the first course is the best.
51. In poll-capped Brent, where the levy and average bills only increased by 4%, the swing against Labour was 7.3%.
52. Any request for a change to a confirmed meal plan will result in us having to levy a booking alteration fee.
53. The Board is funded by an annual levy on builders and sub-contractors.
54. Wolsey met the first crisis by ordering the levy of a forced loan.
55. Independent financial advisers shall pay a levy of £5,000 for each independent financial adviser they employ.
56. If the parliamentary committee wishes to see Britain's racing transformed, it should forget about tampering with the levy rate.
57. Yet an extra levy on names to replenish it would be highly unpopular.
58. Whether the penny-a-pound levy would force growers out of business is a matter of dispute.
59. As the hon. Member for Stretford said(sentencedict.com), Labour would impose a training levy of 0.5 percent. of the payroll.
60. Magistrates fined Levy £200 for the assault on Miss Batey but made no order of compensation for her injuries.
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