Definitions for levies

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levies lev·y

Spelling: [lev-ee]

IPA: /ˈlɛv i/

Levies is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in levies (eeilsv).

Definitions for levies

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.

verb (used with object)

1. to impose (a tax):
2. to conscript (troops).
3. to start or wage (war).

verb (used without object)

1. to seize or attach property by judicial order.

Origin of levies

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; cf. levee²

Examples for levies

Early the next morning, the Pioneers and levies started to cross the pass.

It seemed that the levies bolted, as soon as they were fired on.

He levies blackmail on almost every crime named in the code.

Nor let us forget the middleman, who levies the lion's share of the earth's produce.

Each reserved the right to raise its own levies in its own way.

He shall join the levies at Toulon in three days; in three days, mark me!

We hear the levies are going on well in the different States.

He importunes, persecutes one, and levies a regular tax on all travellers.

On arriving at the top of the pass, the Hunza levies skirmished ahead.

levies of colonial troops were made, both in and out of the territories of the saints.