Levy vs Tariff - What's the difference?
levy | tariff |
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.
a system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves
a schedule of rates, fees or prices
(British) a sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime
As verbs the difference between levy and tariff
is that levy is to impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property while tariff is to levy a duty on (something.As nouns the difference between levy and tariff
is that levy is the act of levying while tariff is a system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves.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 .