Levy vs. Assessment — What's the Difference?

Impose (a tax, fee, or fine)

The act of assessing; appraisal.

Enlist (someone) for military service

An amount assessed, as for taxation.

An act of levying a tax, fee, or fine

The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.

An act of enlisting troops

An appraisal or evaluation.

To impose (a tax or fine, for example) on someone.

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

To impose a tax, fine, or other punishment on (a person or business).

A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an assessment of property or an assessment on property.

To enlist or conscript into military service

The specific sum levied or assessed.

To declare and wage (a war).

An apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a "call").

To confiscate property, especially in accordance with a legal judgment.

The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

The act or process of levying.

An amount determined as payable;

Money, property, or troops levied.

The market value set on assets

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

The act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event;

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.

(legal) 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.

A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12½ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.

The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.

That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.

The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.

To raise, as a siege.

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

To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.

To gather or exact; as, to levy money.

To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods.

A charge imposed and collected

The act of drafting into military service

Impose and collect;

Cause to assemble or enlist in the military;