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levy

noun as in assessment, tax

verb as in assess, impose

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Prodigiously researched, elegantly written and relentlessly interesting, Levy’s opus should be required reading for every college history and economics major.

With no forensic evidence or eyewitnesses, that key witness, Armando Morales, was the sole direct link between Guandique and Levy.

The measures would have lowered the threshold at which workers start paying income tax, raised levies on businesses and expanded VAT.

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The book breaks down Levy’s so-called “Influence Equation”—how influence is determined by the integrity of your relationships and the strength of the community you’re part of, or trying to build—to demonstrate his way of forming bonds with others.

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In addition to hosting the events, Levy runs a consulting firm that works with companies to help them connect with their employees and customers through applying research in neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics and more.

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He raised the device in front of his face, eyeing it suspiciously from behind his Eugene Levy eyebrows.

French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy has been a staunch defender of the right to offend and blaspheme--when it comes to Islam.

In the mixed city of Haifa, for example, the Jewish mayor Shabtai Levy met with Arab leaders just before the war broke out.

The Arab leaders told Levy that they had been ordered out—and even threatened—by al-Husseini and must obey.

The Bain investment is likely welcome news for retailers such as Levy.

If this stinking quartet takes it into its head to levy annual blackmail, where is the money coming from?

Whatever property on which a levy could have been made by judicial process against the bankrupt passes to the trustee.

But the levy could not be collected till Michaelmas, and meantime the King appealed for an advance.

Maybe if we did go with Thorgils we should meet many more men on the way to the levy also.

King Harald sent round the whole of Norway calling out a levy, one half of the general war-muster.

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On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to levy, such as: burden, duty, excise, fee, tariff, and collection.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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