Synonyms of the word

levy

• v. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
• v. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
• v. To draft someone into military service.
• v. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
• v. To wage war.
• v. To raise, as a siege.
• v. (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
• n. The act of levying.
• n. The tax, property or people so levied.
• n. (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at…

bill

• n. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later…
• n. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
• n. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
• n. A pickaxe, or mattock.
• n. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
• v. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
• n. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a turtle,…
• n. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
• n. (of a hat or cap) The peak or brim, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
• v. (obsolete) To peck.
• v. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.
• n. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill…
• n. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain…
• n. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
• n. (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the…
• n. (US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
• n. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
• n. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play,…
• n. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without…
• n. A set of items presented together.
• v. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
• v. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
• n. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

conscription

• n. involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.
• n. An enrolling or registering.

draft

• n. (possibly archaic) The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something…
• n. (possibly archaic) The act of drawing in a net for fish.
• n. (possibly archaic) That which is drawn in; a catch, a haul.
• n. An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing; a preliminary sketch or outline.
• n. (nautical) Depth of water needed to float a ship; depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's…
• n. A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
• n. Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
• n. An amount of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) that is drunk in one swallow.
• n. Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
• n. A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
• n. Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
• n. (politics) A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
• n. (sports) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
• n. (rail transport) The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
• n. The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the…
• v. (transitive) To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
• v. To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
• v. To write a law.
• v. (transitive) To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
• v. To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
• v. (transitive, sports) To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
• v. (intransitive) To follow very closely behind another vehicle, thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage…
• v. To draw out; to call forth. See draft.
• v. To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
• adj. (not comparable) Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.

enlist

• v. (transitive) To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
• v. (intransitive) To join a cause or organization, especially military service.
• v. (transitive) To recruit the aid or membership of others.
• v. To secure, to obtain.

impose

• v. (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
• v. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience.
• v. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way.
• v. To practice a trick or deception.
• v. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
• v. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns…

muster

• n. Gathering.
• n. Showing.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit.
• v. (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a…
• v. (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders,…
• v. (transitive, US) To enroll (into service).

raise

• v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
• v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
• v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
• v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
• n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
• n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
• n. A cairn or pile of stones.

recruit

• n. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
• n. A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
• n. A hired worker.
• n. (biology, ecology) A new member of a certain population, usually referring to a juvenile.
• v. To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports…
• v. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster.
• v. (archaic) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy lack or deficiency in.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.
• v. (biochemistry) To prompt a protein, leucocyte etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.