Levy

n. act or process of collecting or conscripting (money, property, etc.) by a government or other authority; something which is collected through a levy (i.e. money, property, troops, etc.)

v. impose a tax or fine; conscript troops, draft into military service; seize property (especially by means of a legal order); start a war, fight a war

Levy or Lévy may refer to:Forced labor; see conscription or national serviceAn imposition of a taxA judicial remedy where the property of a judgment debtor is seized for public sale to satisfy a monetary judgmentAn administrative (i.e., non-judicial) seizure or distraint of property by a taxing authority to satisfy a tax liability (for example, under United States tax law pursuant to )An alternate spelling of LeviAn alternate spelling of leveePaul Pierre Lévy, a French mathematician known forLévy processesThe Lévy continuity theoremLévy's convergence theoremLévy's modulus of continuityThe Lévy metricLevy County
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Noun
1. a charge imposed and collected
(hypernym) charge
(hyponym) tax, taxation, revenue enhancement
(derivation) impose
2. the act of drafting into military service
(synonym) levy en masse
(hypernym) conscription, muster, draft, selective service
(derivation) recruit, raise
Verb
1. impose and collect; "levy a fine"
(synonym) impose
(hypernym) charge, bill
(hyponym) toll
2. cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers"
(synonym) recruit, raise
(hypernym) enlist, draft, muster in
(derivation) levy en masse

n. Levi, one of the 12 tribes of Israel (Biblical); male first name; family name

(v. t.)
To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.
  

(v. t.)
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.
  

(v. t.)
To raise, as a siege.
  

(v. t.)
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.
  

(v. t.)
To gather or exact; as, to levy money.
  

(v. t.)
To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
  

(v. i.)
To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods.
  

(n.)
The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.
  

(n.)
The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.
  

(n.)
That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.
  

(n.)
A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.