levy-n; 4 Senses

Sense Number 1: taxes imposed and collected

Commentary: LEVY[+quantity][+sum][+money][+tax]
NOTE: refers to a sum of money, not the event of imposing taxes (Sense 2)

Examples:
You don't have to pay levies on merchandise in duty free shops.
There is a sizable levy on these luxury items.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: the act of imposing taxation

Commentary: LEVY[+event][+taxation]
NOTE: implies an agent/actor in a role as initiator or collector of taxes.
NOTE: this sense is a nominalization of the verb 'levy'

Examples:
The legislature's levy of a new tax on cigarettes will raise revenues for the state.
It was hard to enforce the levy of these types of business transactions.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 1b

Sense Number 3: the act of conscripting soldiers for an army

Commentary: LEVY[+event][+conscription]
NOTE: this sense is a nominalization

Examples:
Such a levy of young men will not have much public support.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 4: the conscripts that form an army

Commentary: LEVY[+entity][+group][+people][+soldiers][+conscripts]
NOTE: refers to people, not the event of recruiting them (Sense 3)

Examples:
The lightly armed local levies were no match for the heavy armor of the enemy.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 2b