levy vs pay

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. 

pay

verb
  • To discharge an obligation or debt. 

  • To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear. 

  • To be profitable or worth the effort. 

  • To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny. 

  • To suffer consequences. 

  • To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. 

  • To be profitable for. 

  • To give (something else than money). 

  • To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. 

noun
  • Money given in return for work; salary or wages. 

adj
  • Operable or accessible on deposit of coins. 

  • Pertaining to or requiring payment. 

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