levy

Academic Word List, sublist 10.

About 5.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   to levy a tax

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

Similar words

conscript recruit impose raise levy en masse taxation charge chargeable tax payment

Often followed by

of and a on taxes the was is for

Word family

levied levier leviers levies levying