Levy

Quick meaning: Levy is a verb meaning (transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.

Meaning

(transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.

More Meanings

1. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
2. To draft someone into military service.
3. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
4. To wage war.
5. To raise, as a siege.
6. (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
7. The act of levying.

Example Sentences

to levy a tax

Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied

The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills

If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.

Word Forms

• levies
• levying
• levied

Synonyms for levy

Depending on context, synonyms include impose, raise, conscript, recruit.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conscript, recruit, impose, raise, taxation, charge.

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