imposition

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/ˌɪm.pəˈzɪʃən/

noun 5

Collocations

(noun.) act of imposing sth

VERB + IMPOSITION

justify

The government struggled to justify the imposition of new taxes on working families.

oppose, resist | resent

PREP

~ on

The new rules felt like an unfair imposition on small businesses trying to survive.

(noun.) unreasonable thing sb expects you to do

ADJ

unacceptable, unwelcome

PREP

~ on

Asking your neighbour to babysit every weekend felt like an unfair imposition on her generosity.

Definitions

noun

The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

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.

He expunges his own anguish at his diagnosis with HIV and the impositions that have claimed his freedom.

That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)

infliction

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Wiktionary

He expunges his own anguish at his diagnosis with HIV and the impositions that have claimed his freedom.

Wiktionary

I wouldn't want to be an imposition.

Tatoeba · #2018831

Obligation means to be unable not to do something because of material necessity, practical need, moral law, or the imposition of someone else's desires.

Tatoeba · #6055607

Is to reason and to be mistaken, an imposition?

Tatoeba · #8372185

The teacher told my child they were a boy. I refuse to accept this imposition of cisgender ideology, as children are not old enough to have a gender.

Tatoeba · #11518148

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