levy

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

to levy a tax

In August, the company also announced that it would begin to levy fines on other vendors on its platform who over-package their products.

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

If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.

To draft someone into military service.

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.

To wage war.

The act of levying.

The act of levying.

1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece A levy of all the men left under sixty.

The things or people so levied.

The Irish levies.

The first is that French people are more concerned about the poor health of their democracy – since the carbon levy they have campaigned for democratic reform (though this has proven harder to deliver than the tax U-turn).

The things or people so levied.

The things 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.