Levy vs. Tariff

Levyverb

To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.

Levyverb

To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.

Levyverb

To draft someone into military service.

Levyverb

To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.

Levyverb

To wage war.

Levyverb

To raise, as a siege.

Levyverb

(legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

Levynoun

The act of levying.

Levynoun

The tax, property or people so levied.

Levynoun

The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

Levynoun

A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12½ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.

Levynoun

The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.

Levynoun

That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.

Levynoun

The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.

Levyverb

To raise, as a siege.

Levyverb

To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.

Levyverb

To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.

Levyverb

To gather or exact; as, to levy money.

Levyverb

To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods.

Levynoun

a charge imposed and collected

Levynoun

the act of drafting into military service

Levyverb

impose and collect;

Levyverb

cause to assemble or enlist in the military;

Levyverb

impose (a tax, fee, or fine)

Levyverb

impose a tax, fee, or fine on

Levyverb

seize (property) to satisfy a legal judgement

Levyverb

enlist (someone) for military service

Levyverb

begin to wage (war)

Levynoun

an act of levying a tax, fee, or fine

Levynoun

a tax raised by levying

Levynoun

a sum collected as a supplement to an existing subscription

Levynoun

an item or items of property seized to satisfy a legal judgement.

Levynoun

an act of enlisting troops

Levynoun

a body of troops that have been enlisted

Tariffnoun

A system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves.

Tariffnoun

A schedule of rates, fees or prices.

Tariffnoun

(British) A sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime.

Tariffverb

(transitive) to levy a duty on (something)

Tariffnoun

A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833).

Tariffnoun

The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound.

Tariffnoun

Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares.

Tariffverb

To make a list of duties on, as goods.

Tariffnoun

a government tax on imports or exports;

Tariffverb

charge a tariff;

Tariff

A tariff is a tax imposed by a government of a country or of a supranational union on imports or exports of goods. Besides being a source of revenue for the government, import duties can also be a form of regulation of foreign trade and policy that taxes foreign products to encourage or safeguard domestic industry.