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| levy | |
| 1. v. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. |  |
| to levy a tax | |
| 2. v. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority. | |
| 3. v. To draft someone into military service. | |
| 4. v. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc. | |
| 5. v. To wage war. | |
| 6. v. To raise, as a siege. | |
| 7. v. (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. | |
| 8. n. The act of levying. | |
| 9. n. The tax, property or people so levied. | |
| 10. n. (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. | |
