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impost
UK /ˈɪmpəʊst/ US /ˈɪmpoʊst/
noun 3
Collocations
1IMPOST + NOUN
combination
Definitions
noun
1
A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise.
’Tis a Land-tax, vvhich he’s too poor to pay; / You, therefore muſt ſome other Impoſt lay.
1752, David Hume, Political Discourses, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, “Of Taxes,” p. 120, […] a duty upon commodities checks itself; and a prince will soon find, that an encrease of the impost is no encrease of his revenue.
2
The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race; the handicap.
noun
1
The top part of a column, pillar, pier, wall, etc. that supports an arch.
The outer circle [of Stonehenge] has been formed by a combination of two uprights and an impost; yet each combination of these three stones is detached, and without any connection with the rest, except that of coinciding in the form of a circle.
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’Tis a Land-tax, vvhich he’s too poor to pay; / You, therefore muſt ſome other Impoſt lay.
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1752, David Hume, Political Discourses, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, “Of Taxes,” p. 120, […] a duty upon commodities checks itself; and a prince will soon find, that an encrease of the impo
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[…] before the sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts they had ceased to pay;
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The outer circle [of Stonehenge] has been formed by a combination of two uprights and an impost; yet each combination of these three stones is detached, and without any connection with the rest, excep
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