levy
B1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The imposition and compulsory collection of a tax, or the sum so raised.
The government introduced a temporary levy on windfall profits in the energy sector.
Business noun
A charge or fee imposed by an authority or institution.
A small levy on card transactions funds the scheme that reimburses fraud victims.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
Get words like levy on your lock screen, a few a day, with review that makes them stick.
Download on the App Store Lexfall puts a new word on your home and lock screen through widgets, so you learn without opening an app. Free to download. After a free trial, a subscription unlocks every field. Built for iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera.