levy en masse

1. 1.

   the act of drafting into military service

   Synonymslevy

   Broaderconscription

Questions about levy en masse

What does levy en masse mean?

levy en masse means "the act of drafting into military service".

What is another word for levy en masse?

Close synonyms include levy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is levy en masse a common word?

levy en masse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.