Difference Wiki

Conscript vs. Levy: What's the Difference?

Conscript and Levy Definitions

Conscript

One compulsorily enrolled for service, especially in the armed forces; a draftee.

Levy

To impose (a tax or fine, for example) on someone.

Conscript

Enrolled compulsorily; drafted.

Levy

To impose a tax, fine, or other punishment on (a person or business).

Conscript

To enroll compulsorily into service; draft.
ADVERTISEMENT

Levy

To enlist or conscript into military service
Levy recruits.

Conscript

One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.
The soldier was a conscript.

Levy

To declare and wage (a war).

Conscript

A constructed script or writing system, especially for use with a conlang.

Levy

To confiscate property, especially in accordance with a legal judgment.
ADVERTISEMENT

Conscript

Drafted into a military service or similar.

Levy

The act or process of levying.

Conscript

Enrolled; written; registered.

Levy

Money, property, or troops levied.

Conscript

(transitive) To enrol(l) compulsorily; to draft; to induct.

Levy

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

Conscript

Enrolled; written; registered.

Levy

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

Conscript

One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.

Levy

To draft someone into military service.

Conscript

To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.

Levy

To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.

Conscript

Someone who is drafted into military service

Levy

To wage war.

Conscript

Enroll into service compulsorily;
The men were conscripted

Levy

To raise, as a siege.

Levy

(legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

Levy

The act of levying.

Levy

The tax, property or people so levied.

Levy

The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

Levy

A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12½ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.

Levy

The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.
A levy of all the men left under sixty.

Levy

That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.

Levy

The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.

Levy

To raise, as a siege.

Levy

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.

Levy

To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.
If they do this . . . my ransom, then,Will soon be levied.

Levy

To gather or exact; as, to levy money.

Levy

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.

Levy

A charge imposed and collected

Levy

The act of drafting into military service

Levy

Impose and collect;
Levy a fine

Levy

Cause to assemble or enlist in the military;
Raise an army
Recruit new soldiers

Trending Comparisons

Popular Comparisons

New Comparisons