Cess vs Levy - What's the difference?
cess | levy |
(British, Ireland) An assessed tax.
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(British, Ireland, informal) Luck
(obsolete) Bound; measure.
* Shakespeare
(British, Ireland) To levy a .
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(rail transport) The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
* Shakespeare
To draft someone into military service
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrolment, conscription. etc.
* Fuller
To wage war
To raise, as a siege.
(legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
The act of levying.
* Thirlwall
The tax, property or people so levied.
* Macaulay
(US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
As nouns the difference between cess and levy
is that cess is an assessed tax while levy is the act of levying.As verbs the difference between cess and levy
is that cess is to levy a cess while levy is to impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.cess
English
(wikipedia cess)Alternative forms
* CessEtymology 1
Shortened form of assess, spelled by analogy with census and other Latinate words.Noun
(es)- The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess .
Verb
Derived terms
* bad cessSee also
* cease * cessationEtymology 2
Possibly from an archaic dialect word meaning "bog".Noun
(es)Derived terms
* cess path * cess heaveSee also
* cesspool * cesspitEtymology 3
(etyl) cesser. See cease.Anagrams
* ----levy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) leve'', from (etyl) ''levee'', from ''lever "to raise".Verb
(en-verb)- to levy a tax
- If they do this my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied .
- Augustine inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
- (Holland)
- to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
- (Cowell)
Noun
(levies)- A levy of all the men left under sixty.
- The Irish levies .
