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levy

Pronunciation: /ˈlɛ.vi/

The English word “levy” has 15 meanings listed here.

verb

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

noun

  1. The act of levying.
  2. A conscription action.
  3. A tax paid in money.
  4. A tax in kind.
  5. Requisitioned supplies.
  6. A body of conscripts.
  7. A shilling.
  8. The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”).

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