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levying
[lev-ee] 
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levy
[lev-ee]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assess, impose |
| Synonyms: | call, call up, charge, collect, demand, exact, extort, gather, lay on, place, put on, raise, set, summon, tax, wrest, wring |
| Notes: | a levee is a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea, while a levy is a charge or tax imposed and collected |
| Antonyms: | disapprove, veto |
| Main Entry: | assess |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assign fee, |
| Synonyms: | amount charge, demand, evaluate, exact, fix, impose, levy, rate, tax, value |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask a price |
| Synonyms: | demand, fix price at, impose, levy, price, require, sell for |
| Antonyms: | pay |
| Main Entry: | enlist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sign up for responsibility |
| Synonyms: | admit, appoint, assign, attract, call to arms, call up, conscribe, conscript, draft, embody, employ, engage, enroll, enter, enter into, gather, get, hire, hitch, incorporate, induct, initiate, inscribe, interest, join, join up, levy, list, mobilize, muster, oblige, obtain, place, press into service, procure, record, recruit, register, reserve, secure, serve, sign on, take on, volunteer |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge, shun |
| Main Entry: | exact |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand, call for |
| Synonyms: | assess, bleed, call, challenge, claim, coerce, command, compel, constrain, extort, extract, force, gouge, impose, insist upon, lean on, levy, oblige, pinch, postulate, put on, require, requisition, shake down, solicit, squeeze, wrench, wrest, wring |
| Antonyms: | give |
| Main Entry: | fine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | penalize in monetary way |
| Synonyms: | alienate, amerce, confiscate, dock*, exact, extort, hit with, levy, make pay, mulct, pay through the nose, punish, sconce, seize, sequestrate, slap with, tax, throw book at |
| Antonyms: | award, compensate, reimburse, reward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set, dictate |
| Synonyms: | appoint, burden, charge, command, compel, constrain, decree, demand, encroach, enforce, enjoin, establish, exact, fix, foist, force, force upon, horn in, inflict, infringe, institute, introduce, intrude, lade, lay, lay down, lay down the law, levy, move in on, oblige, obtrude, ordain, order, place, prescribe, presume, promulgate, put, put foot down, read riot act, require, saddle, take advantage, trespass, visit, wish, wreak, wreck |
| Main Entry: | inflict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | impose something |
| Synonyms: | administer, apply, bring upon, command, deal out, deliver, dispense, exact, expose, extort, force, force upon, give, give it to, lay down the law, levy, mete out, require, stick it to, strike, subject, visit, wreak |
| Notes: | afflict is generally used with living beings; inflict is generally used with inanimate objects inflict takes 'on,' afflict takes 'with' |
| Main Entry: | put |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | commit, assign |
| Synonyms: | condemn, consign, constrain, doom, employ, enjoin, force, impose, induce, inflict, levy, make, oblige, require, set, subject, subject to |
| Antonyms: | change, displace, transfer |
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