Levy vs Customs - What's the difference?
levy | customs |
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.
(pluralonly) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.
(label) The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods.
As a proper noun levy
is : levy.As a noun customs is
.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 .
Etymology 2
Contraction of elevenpence.Noun
(levies)See also
* levee * Levi ----customs
English
(wikipedia customs)Noun
(head)- The culture had many distinctive and interesting beliefs and customs .
- Customs of £200 were due on all the wine we took back from France.
- Customs has pulled us over on our way for an inspection.