Conscription vs. Levy

Compulsory enrollment, especially for the armed forces; draft.

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

A monetary payment exacted by a government in wartime.

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

Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

To enlist or conscript into military service

An enrolling or registering.

To declare and wage (a war).

An enrolling or registering.

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

A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.

The act or process of levying.

Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.

Money, property, or troops levied.

Compulsory military service

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

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.

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

The act of levying.

The tax, property or people so levied.

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

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.

The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.

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

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

To raise, as a siege.

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

To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.

To gather or exact; as, to levy money.

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.

A charge imposed and collected

The act of drafting into military service

Impose and collect;

Cause to assemble or enlist in the military;