Levy

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈlÉ›.vi/

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever "to raise".

Full definition of levy

Verb

1. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate propertyto levy a tax
2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
• ShakespeareIf 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 enrolment, conscription. etc.
• FullerAugustine ... 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.

Noun

1. The act of levying.
• ThirlwallA levy of all the men left under sixty.
2. The tax, property or people so levied.
• MacaulayThe Irish levies.

Contraction of elevenpence.

Noun

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.