levy.
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
Meaning & usage
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
to levy a tax
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
To draft someone into military service.
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
To wage war.
To raise, as a siege.
To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
Where this word comes from
From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”).
The act of levying.
The act of levying. A conscription action.
The things or people so levied. A tax. A tax paid in money.
The things or people so levied. A tax. A tax in kind.
The things or people so levied. Requisitioned supplies.
The things or people so levied. A body of conscripts.
A shilling.
Where this word comes from
From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”).
The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
Where this word comes from
Contraction of elevenpence.
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