levy
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- If you levy a charge or a tax, you legally make people pay it.
- The government levies a tax on all wood entering the country.
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- (countable) A levy is an extra charge on top of the basic price, usually a tax.
- The levy on fuel went up this year.
- (countable) Someone drafted or conscripted into military service.