levy🔊

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

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.

(law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

The act of levying.

The tax, property or people so levied.

(US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.