A contribution for the support of a government required of persons, groups, or businesses within the domain of that government, A fee or dues levied on the members of an organization to meet its expenses, A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority, verb_ set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine), make a charge against or accuse, levy a tax on, transitive verb_ To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object, To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government, To make difficult or excessive demands upon

A list or table of goods with the duties or customs to be paid on them, either on importation or on exportation; a list or table of duties or customs to be paid on goods imported or exported, The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed, a government tax on imports or exports, verb_ charge a tariff, transitive verb_ To fix a duty or price on, To make a list of duties on, as goods, to levy a duty on (something)

To establish or apply as compulsory; levy, To bring about by authority or force; force to prevail, To obtrude or force (oneself, for example) on another or others, To force oneself on or take unfair advantage of others

One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits, A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin, one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down

To impose a tax, fine, or other punishment on (a person or business), To enlist or conscript into military service, To declare and wage (a war)

To go without taking or removing, To give over to another to control or act on, To set out or depart; go, transitive verb_ obsolete To raise; to levy, noun_ An act of departing; a farewell, Liberty granted to do something, or for some specific action or course of conduct; permission; allowance; license

act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity, That which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals, A payment exacted for a special purpose; an impost or a levy