What is the meaning of Levy?

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

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

To draft someone into military service.

To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.

To wage war.

To raise, as a siege.

To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

The act of levying.

The tax, property, 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.

plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)

board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)

slab (thick, flat piece of material)

disk (device for storing data)

recording, disc (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)

Ellipsis of keittolevy (hotplate).

Source: wiktionary.org