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impose
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Impose (disambiguation)
(imposes, imposing, imposed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you impose something on people, you use your authority to force them to accept it.
Britain imposed fines on airlines which bring in passengers without proper papers...
Many companies have imposed a pay freeze...
The conditions imposed on volunteers were stringent.
VERB: V n on n, V n, V-ed
• imposition
...the imposition of a ban on cycling in the city centre.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n
2.
If you impose your opinions or beliefs on other people, you try and make people accept them as a rule or as a model to copy.
Parents of either sex should beware of imposing their own tastes on their children.
VERB: V n on n
3.
If something imposes strain, pressure, or suffering on someone, it causes them to experience it.
The filming imposed an additional strain on her.
= inflict
VERB: V n on n
4.
If someone imposes on you, they unreasonably expect you to do something for them which you do not want to do.
I was afraid you'd simply feel we were imposing on you...
VERB: V on/upon n
• imposition (impositions)
I know this is an imposition. But please hear me out.
N-COUNT
5.
If someone imposes themselves on you, they force you to accept their company although you may not want to.
I didn't want to impose myself on my married friends.
VERB: V pron-refl on n
Impose
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Impose (disambiguation)
·noun A command; injunction.
II. Impose ·vi To practice trick or deception.
III. Impose ·vt To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
V. Impose ·vt To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing;
- said of columns or pages of type, forms, ·etc.
impose
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Impose (disambiguation)
v.
1) (D; intr., refl.) to impose on, upon ('to take advantage of') (to impose on smb.'s good nature; don't impose yourself on them)
2) (D; tr.) ('to levy') to impose on (to impose a new tax on cigarettes)
Examples of use of impose
1. "The director has to impose something, as a conductor has to impose something, but impose is a big word.
2. "Zambia cannot impose its will on Zimbabwe, just as Zimbabwe cannot impose its will on Zambia.
3. Security Council could decide to impose sanctions.
4. Pervez Musharraf‘s decision to impose emergency rule.
5. The Security Council could impose punitive sanctions.