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levy

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Verb

  1. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
    • to levy a tax
  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. A conscription action.
  2. A conscription action.
  3. The things or people so levied. A tax. A tax paid in money. A tax in kind. Requisitioned supplies. A body of conscripts.
  4. A tax. A tax paid in money. A tax in kind.
  5. A tax paid in money.
  6. A tax in kind.
  7. Requisitioned supplies.
  8. A body of conscripts.
  9. A shilling.

Noun

  1. The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

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