• (British, America) IPA: /ˈlɛ.vi/

levy

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.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.

3. To draft someone into military service.
4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.

   • Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.

5. To wage war.
6. To raise, as a siege.
7. (legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

   to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.

• French: lever
• German: erheben
• Italian: imporre
• Russian: взима́ть

• German: erheben
• Spanish: multar

• German: einziehen, in Beschlag nehmen

• German: einziehen
• Portuguese: convocar
• Spanish: reclutar

levy (plural levies)

1. The act of levying.

   • A levy of all the men left under sixty.

2. The tax, property or people so levied.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

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• French: impôt, prélèvement, taxe
• German: Erhebung, Abgabenerhebung, Umlagenerhebung
• Russian: сбор

• German: Umlage, Abgabe

levy (plural levies)

1. (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

1. Surname
2. Surname
3. A male given name