verb🔗ShareTo establish or apply by authority."Congress imposed new tariffs."politicsgovernmentlawstateessentialieltsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo be an inconvenience (on or upon)"The strict new rules imposed a lot of extra work on the students. "attitudehumanmoralessentialieltsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo enforce: compel to behave in a certain way"Social relations impose courtesy"lawgovernmentpoliticspoliceessentialieltsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo practice a trick or deception (on or upon)."The student tried to impose a trick on his friend, pretending the assignment was due earlier than it actually was. "actioncharactermoralessentialieltsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination."The priest will impose his hands on the new teacher during the ordination ceremony. "religionritualessentialieltsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo 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."The printer imposed the columns of type for the school newspaper onto the metal printing plates. "technicaltechnologyessentialieltsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
