Levying is valid Scrabble Word

Is levying a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is levying valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for LEVYING in dictionary:

VERB:

LEVY, to impose or collect by legal authority
impose (a tax, fee, or fine)
impose a tax, fee, or fine on
seize (property) to satisfy a legal judgement
enlist (someone) for military service
begin to wage (war)

NOUN:

an act of levying a tax, fee, or fine
a tax raised by levying
a sum collected as a supplement to an existing subscription
an item or items of property seized to satisfy a legal judgement.

an act of enlisting troops
a body of troops that have been enlisted

Words related to LEVYING

levied10 levies9 levy10

Words that contain LEVYING

replevying19

How to use LEVYING in a sentence

The duke was bound by this act to hold himself in obedience to the legislative decisions of the council, and renounced all right of levying arbitrary taxes or duties on the state.
However, I will not put you to the trouble of levying on my furniture.
It seems not even to have met with any opposition from the feudal powers, who no doubt found it an easy pretext for levying additional rates and taxes.
Parliament had passed an act for levying certain duties on the trade of the Southern Colonies, which were very oppressive to the commerce of Maryland.
The Deputy-commissioners, whom I have mentioned above, have been at Amiens some time, in order to promote the levying of recruits.
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
The chief of these was the levying of duties at certain places.
Europe was looted wherever the arms of France prevailed, and the levying of tribute both on public and on private account was the order of the day.
Levying a vast army, he marched into Egypt, and engaged Noctanebo, the king, in a contest for existence.
But it was tolerably well known that he employed himself in levying troops.

It is in the levying of taxes that the sovereign and the subject act as if they were of opposite interests, or rather as if they were enemies to each other.
In France, before the revolution, the taxes were more oppressive, from the manner of levying them than from their amount.
The Cornish royalists, therefore, bethought themselves of levying a force which might be more serviceable.
But the disposal of this money was no less the object of general complaint against the parliament than the levying of it.
He named commissioners for levying a benevolence, and he extorted about seventy thousand pounds by this expedient.
The king openly avowed and maintained this power of levying taxes at pleasure.
Treason against this Confederacy shall consist only in levying war against it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
Over and above all these considerations in importance, however, was the absolute necessity of making it impossible for insurgents to procure food by levying contributions.
Maryland attempted to destroy the bank by levying a very high tax upon a branch bank within the State.
It would put them in shape to starve us of the West by levying duties on our crops when going to market.
A case was then sent to the Advocate-General, and he held that the Municipality were exceeding their powers in levying such a charge.
When sitting for county purposes he has exclusive jurisdiction in directing and controlling all county property and in levying general and special taxes.
The Duke of Brunswick was already levying men in his own name, and intended to form a separate party composed of the Circle of Lower Saxony.
Had we restrained the king from levying taxes, all might have gone well.
The system of levying private war which prevails on that continent is not wholly unknown in other parts of the world.

Similar words containing LEVY without suffix ing

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