levy

levy is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.
2. noun. The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.
3. noun. That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.
4. noun. The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.
5. transitive verb. To raise, as a siege.
6. transitive verb. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.
7. transitive verb. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.
8. transitive verb. To gather or exact; as, to levy money.
9. transitive verb. To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
10. transitive verb. To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.
11. intransitive verb. To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods.
12. noun. the act of drafting into military service
13. noun. a charge imposed and collected
14. verb. cause to assemble or enlist in the military

    "raise an army"

    "recruit new soldiers"

    Synonyms: raise, recruit

15. verb. impose and collect

    "levy a fine"

    Synonyms: impose

Synonyms

raise, recruit, impose

Common word forms

levied, levier, levies, levying

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