2syllables
levying
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Definitions oflevying
1verb
- To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
Example: "to levy a tax"
- To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
- To draft someone into military service.
- To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
- To wage war.
- To raise, as a siege.
- To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
Example: "to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc."
1noun
- The act by which something is levied.
Example: "levyings of war"
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