expense vs levy

expense

verb
  • To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works. 

noun
  • A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds. 

  • The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated. 

levy

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

  • To raise, as a siege. 

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

  • To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up. 

  • To draft someone into military service. 

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

  • To wage war. 

noun
  • The tax, property or people so levied. 

  • The act of levying. 

How often have the words expense and levy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )