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▸ verb: To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
▸ verb: To draft someone into military service.
▸ verb: To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
▸ verb: To wage war.
▸ verb: To raise, as a siege.
▸ verb: (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
▸ noun: The act of levying.
▸ noun: The tax, property, or people so levied.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: A surname from Irish.
▸ noun: A Jewish surname from Hebrew.
▸ noun: A male given name
Similar:
recruit,
impose,
conscript,
raise,
levy en masse,
impound,
repossess,
lever,
garnish,
distress,
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Opposite:
Types:
property tax,
sales tax,
income tax,
excise tax,
estate tax,
capital gains tax,
payroll tax,
value-added tax,
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