levies

Noun

levy (plural levies)

1. The act of levying.
   1. A conscription action.
      • A levy of all the men left under sixty.1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece
2. A tax paid in money.
   • The Irish levies.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
3. A tax in kind.
4. Requisitioned supplies.
5. A body of conscripts.
   • To make up for their losses at the battle they [the professional army of Harold II, Anglo-Saxon King of England] had gathered levies of men from the counties they passed through on their way south. […] Ranged alongside these professionals were the levies: farmers and peasants, for the most part...1978, James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 48

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