leviable
Americanadjective
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that may be levied.
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liable or subject to a levy.
adjective
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(of taxes, tariffs, etc) liable to be levied
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(of goods, etc) liable to bear a levy; taxable
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Duties are leviable on either imports or exports.
From Citizenship A Manual for Voters by Cromwell, Emma Guy
A large proportion of the taxation leviable is, however, evaded.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.
For this popular military expedition, Parliament in 1327 granted the youthful king a Subsidy to the amount of one-twentieth leviable upon the value of nearly all kinds of property.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Hackwood, Frederick William
I have consulted the Act of Parliament, and find it is leviable against those who enter after 1st January 1831.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill
That is to say, one-half of their revenues were leviable for military purposes.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
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