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imposition

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From Middle English imposicioun, from Old French imposicion, from Latin impositio.

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imposition (countable and uncountable, plural impositions)

  1. The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
  2. An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
    • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
      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.
    • 1991 May 4, Mary Dowd, “Risky Business”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
      He expunges his own anguish at his diagnosis with HIV and the impositions that have claimed his freedom.
  3. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
  4. A trick or deception put or laid on others.
  5. (printing) 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.
  6. (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
  7. (UK, school or university slang) A task imposed on a student as punishment.

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imposition f (plural impositions)

  1. imposition (all senses)
  2. taxation
    Synonym: taxation

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Middle English

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imposition

  1. Alternative form of imposicioun
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