Conscript vs Levy - What's the difference?
conscript | levy |
One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.
Drafted.
Enrolled; written; registered.
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
* Shakespeare
To draft someone into military service
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrolment, conscription. etc.
* Fuller
To wage war
To raise, as a siege.
(legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
The act of levying.
* Thirlwall
The tax, property or people so levied.
* Macaulay
(US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
As nouns the difference between conscript and levy
is that conscript is one who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee while levy is the act of levying.As verbs the difference between conscript and levy
is that conscript is to enrol(l) compulsorily; to draft; to induct while levy is to impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.As an adjective conscript
is drafted.conscript
English
Noun
(en noun)- The soldier was a conscript .
Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* draft, inductlevy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) leve'', from (etyl) ''levee'', from ''lever "to raise".Verb
(en-verb)- to levy a tax
- If they do this my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied .
- Augustine inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
- (Holland)
- to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
- (Cowell)
Noun
(levies)- A levy of all the men left under sixty.
- The Irish levies .