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Conscription and Levy Definitions

Conscription

Compulsory enrollment, especially for the armed forces; draft.

Levy

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

Conscription

A monetary payment exacted by a government in wartime.

Levy

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

Conscription

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

To enlist or conscript into military service
Levy recruits.

Conscription

An enrolling or registering.

Levy

To declare and wage (a war).

Conscription

An enrolling or registering.
The conscription of men of war.

Levy

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

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

Levy

The act or process of levying.

Conscription

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

Levy

Money, property, or troops levied.

Conscription

Compulsory military service

Levy

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

Levy

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

Levy

To draft someone into military service.

Levy

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

Levy

To wage war.

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

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