imposition
UK/ˌɪm.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
imposition noun: the act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
Noun
imposition (countable and uncountable, plural impositions)
- The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
- Synonyms:
- imposure, infliction, obtrusion
- An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
- They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169
- He expunges his own anguish at his diagnosis with HIV and the impositions that have claimed his freedom.1991 May 4, Mary Dowd, “Risky Business”, in Gay Community News, page 7
- That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
- Synonyms:
- burden, charge, enjoinder, injunction, tax
- A trick or deception put or laid on others.
- 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.
- A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
- A task imposed on a student as punishment.
- Synonyms:
- impot
imposition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
imposition in Hindi
- अधिरोपण
imposition in Tamil
- எழுத்துவேலை, எழுத்து வேலை, சுமத்தீடு, தண்டனை, மீண்டுமீண்டெழுது தண்டம், விதித்தல்
imposition in Urdu
- بار, ڈنڈ, دھوکا, ہرجانہ, محصول
imposition in Bengali
- আরোপ, কর আরোপ, অন্যায় অনুরোধ, জবরদস্তি
More languagesFewer languages
- imposition in Telugu
- విధింపు
- imposition in Malayalam
- ചുമത്തൽ, അടിച്ചേല്പിക്കൽ, വച്ചുകെട്ടൽ, ഏല്പിക്കൽ
- imposition in Kannada
- ಹೇರಿಕೆ hērike
- imposition in Punjabi
- ਥੋਪਣ
- imposition in Nepali
- अधिरोपण
- imposition in Arabic
- فَرْض farḍ
- imposition in Indonesian
- imposisi
Examples of imposition in a sentence
- The imposition of ship money without Parliamentary consent was one of the causes of the English Civil War.
- They both opposed an eventual imposition of anti-dumping measures as they considered that it could lead to a cessation of imports of the product concerned from the PRC79.
- On Wednesday, they had certainly not anticipated the imposition of them the following morning.
Synonyms of imposition
Forms of imposition
| plural | impositions |
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Origin of imposition
From Middle English imposicioun, from Old French imposicion, from Latin impositio.
Words formed from imposition
Questions about imposition
- What does imposition mean?
- Imposition means the act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
- What is imposition in Hindi?
- Imposition in Hindi is अधिरोपण. See Imposition meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is imposition?
- Imposition is a noun.
- How do you pronounce imposition?
- Imposition is pronounced /ˌɪm.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of imposition?
- The plural of imposition is impositions.
Words near imposition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: imposition (page history and authors); imposition (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); imposition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); imposition (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Imposition (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); imposition (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); imposition (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ಹೇರಿಕೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); imposition (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); imposition (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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