levy

  • (noun): The act of levying.
  • (noun): The tax, property or people so levied.
  • (verb): To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
  • (verb): To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
  • (verb): To draft someone into military service.
  • (verb): To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
  • (verb): To wage war.
  • (verb): To raise, as a siege.
  • (verb): To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
  • to levy a tax
  • to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.