Levy vs Donate - What's the difference?
levy | donate |
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.
To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.
As verbs the difference between levy and donate
is that levy is to impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property while donate is to make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.As a noun levy
is the act of levying.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 ----donate
English
Verb
(donat)- She donates 100 dollars to Red Crescent every year.
- He donated an etching from his own collection to the new art gallery.
