Levied

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. A financial charge is imposed on individuals or groups by an authority, which enforces a collection of resources from obligated parties to fund public services
2. An authority enforces a financial obligation, imposing a tax or charge on people or organizations while necessitating the collection of funds for operational needs
3. To officially impose a tax, fee, or fine on a person or organization ; to gather money or resources by imposing such a charge

Etymology: "Levied" is the past tense and past participle of "levy," and the verb's surprising core is that it means "to raise." Its ancestry runs from Latin "lēvāre," meaning to lift, through Old French "lever," also to raise, and into Anglo-Norman "leve," a noun for a raising or collecting. The image is physical: gathering something up from people, much as one lifts a weight. The sense of collecting money grew naturally from that idea of raising. To levy a tax is to lift a sum from those who owe it. The same logic explains the older military sense, to levy troops, meaning to raise an army by calling men together. Taxes and soldiers were both things a ruler gathered from the population, so the verb served both purposes.

Synonyms: imposed, charged, collected, gathered, inflicted

Antonyms: forgiven, waived, released, absolved, exempted