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单词 political levy
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political levy
political levy n. a financial contribution made by a member of a trade union to a political party, usually deducted from the membership fees.
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1888 Ohio Democrat (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 4 Oct. The conscience of men has become so deadened by a long indulgence in legalized leeching of the product of labor and by patient acquiescence on the part of the masses, that a political levy of vast sums of money is treated as a matter of course.
1957 Times 22 Oct. 4/3 The Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists, Manchester, have rejected a proposal for a political levy of a farthing a week.
2004 F. Beckett & D. Hencke Blairs & their Court viii. 132 The deal was dead. Union members who paid the political levy were not to have a say in the choice of Labour parliamentary candidates.
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