levy

verb

1. (transitive)To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.

   “to levy a tax”

   “In August, the company also announced that it would begin to levy fines on other vendors on its platform who over-package their products.”

2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.

   “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.

   “Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied”

7. To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

   “The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills”

noun

1. The act of levying.
2. The act of levying.

   “1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece A levy of all the men left under sixty.”

3. The things or people so levied.

   “The Irish levies.”

   “The first is that French people are more concerned about the poor health of their democracy – since the carbon levy they have campaigned for democratic reform (though this has proven harder to deliver than the tax U-turn).”

4. The things or people so levied.
5. The things or people so levied.
6. The things or people so levied.

   “To make up for their losses at the battle they [the professional army of Harold II, Anglo-Saxon King of England] had gathered levies of men from the counties they passed through on their way south. […] Ranged alongside these professionals were the levies: farmers and peasants, for the most part, who had been straggling in from all over the southern counties during the previous few days [before the Battle of Hastings in 1066].”

7. (obsolete, slang)A shilling.
8. (Pennsylvania, US, Virginia, obsolete)The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

name

1. A surname from Irish.
2. A Jewish surname from Hebrew.

   “On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology. […] Till is somewhere on the Hemsworth spectrum (more engaging than Liam; not as charismatic at Chris), but Levy is wholly charming as his enthusiastic sidekick.”

3. A male given name.
4. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Jasper County, South Carolina, United States.