Levy Explained
Levy, Lévy or Levies may refer to:
People
- Levy (surname), people with the surname Levy or Lévy
- Levy Adcock (born 1988), American football player
- Levy Barent Cohen (1747–1808), Dutch-born British financier and community worker
- Levy Fidelix (1951–2021), Brazilian conservative politician, businessman and journalist
- Levy Gerzberg (born 1945), Israeli-American entrepreneur, inventor, and business person
- Levy Li (born 1987), Miss Malaysia Universe 2008–2009
- Levy Mashiane (born 1996), South African footballer
- Levy Matebo Omari (born 1989), Kenyan long-distance runner
- Levy Mayer (1858–1922), American lawyer
- Levy Middlebrooks (born 1966), American basketball player
- Levy Mokgothu, South African footballer
- Levy Mwanawasa (1948–2008), President of Zambia from 2002
- Levy Nzoungou (born 1998), Congolese-French rugby player, playing in England
- Levy Rozman (born 1995), American chess IM, coach, and content creator
- Levy Sekgapane (born 1990), South African operatic tenor
- Levy Lee Simon, American playwright, actor, director and screenwriter
- Levy Solomons (1730–1792), British-Canadian merchant and fur trader
- Levy Thorpe (1889–1935), English footballer
- Levy Tran (born 1983), American actress and model
- Levy Yakete (1965–2014), Central African Republic politician
- Levy baronets, extinct title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Places
Military organizations
A levy (plural levies) is a military force raised ("levied") in a particular manner. In the Roman legion this typically means "farmer soldier" militia units raised by conscription that provided most of light and heavy infantry composition—most of which were of poor training and little fighting ability—but not always. In the British Empire, levies were units raised by local officials for local tasks, typically for local order and security.
- Conscript forces
- Feudal levies a form of medieval conscription
- Shire levy, a means of military recruitment in medieval England
- Opolchenie, a Russian version of medieval conscription
- Levée en masse, mass conscript armies, especially that of Revolutionary France
- Volkssturm, a Nazi-German organized conscription during (last days of) WWII
- Locally raised forces within the British Empire
Compulsory government measures
- To force someone into military or national service by means of conscription
- Feudal levies a form of medieval conscription
- Shire levy, a means of military recruitment in medieval England
- A legal action, where property of a judgment debtor is taken for public sale to satisfy a monetary judgment
- An imposition of a fine
- To take money in order to pay off a tax liability
- To wage war
- The statutory levy collected from bookmakers in the UK by the Horserace Betting Levy Board
- Private copying levy, a tax on recordable media typically allocated to the developers of "content"
- E-levy, proposed tax bill in Ghana
Businesses
Other uses
- 3673 Levy, an asteroid
- Angstrom Levy, an Image Universe supervillain in the comic and television series Invincible
- USS Levy (DE-162), destroyer escort
See also
