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   [lev-ee] noun, plural lev·ies, verb, lev·ied, lev·y·ing.
noun
1.
an imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force.
2.
the amount owed or collected.
3.
the conscription of troops.
4.
the troops conscripted.
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verb (used with object)
5.
to impose (a tax): to levy a duty on imports.
6.
to conscript (troops).
7.
to start or wage (war).

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verb (used without object)
8.
to seize or attach property by judicial order.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English leve(e) < Middle French, noun use of feminine past participle of lever to raise < Latin levāre, akin to levis light; compare levee2

Related forms
re·lev·y, verb (used with object), -lev·ied, -lev·y·ing.
self-lev·ied, adjective
un·lev·ied, adjective

Can be confused: levee, levy.

Synonyms
6. draft, enlist, callup.

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levy
1227, "act of raising or collecting," from Anglo-Fr. leve, from O.Fr. levée "act of raising," noun use of fem. pp. of lever "to raise" (see lever). Originally of taxes, later of men for armies (1500). The noun meaning "an act of levying" is from 1427.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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