Imposition

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of imposing or the condition of being imposed.
  • n. Something imposed, such as a tax, an undue burden, or a fraud.
  • n. A burdensome or unfair demand, as upon someone's time: listened to the telemarketer but resented the imposition.
  • n. Printing The arrangement of printed matter to form a sequence of pages.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
  • n. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
  • n. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.
  • n. Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
  • n. A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
  • n. A task imposed on a student as punishment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
  • n. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
  • n. An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
  • n. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
  • n. The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
  • n. The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A placing, putting, or laying on: as, the imposition of hands in ordination or confirmation.
  • n. The act of positing or fixing; affixment; attachment: with on or upon.
  • n. A laying or placing as a burden or obligation; the act of levying, enjoining, enforcing, or inflicting: as, the imposition of taxes or of laws.
  • n. In printing, the laying of pages of type or plates upon an imposing-stone or the bed of a press, and securing them in a chase. See impose, v. t., 6.
  • n. That which is laid on, enjoined, levied, enforced, or inflicted, as a burden, tax, duty, or restriction; specifically (in the plural), in English history, duties upon imports and exports imposed at the pleasure of the king.
  • n. A trick or deception; a fraud; an imposture.
  • n. An exercise imposed upon a student as a punishment; a task.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
  • n. an uncalled-for burden
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    incumbrance    onus    burden    encumbrance    load   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    impose   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deception    imposture    fraud    deceit    charge    burden    injunction    tax    cheating    delusion   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    misrepresentation    deception    falsehood    imposture    violation    usurpation    betrayal    evasion    forgery    fraud