verb🔗ShareTo establish or apply by authority."Congress imposed new tariffs."governmentlawpoliticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo be an inconvenience (on or upon)"I hope I'm not imposing, but could you help me carry these groceries? "attitudeactionmoralhumanChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo enforce: compel to behave in a certain way"Social relations impose courtesy"governmentlawpoliticspoliceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo practice a trick or deception (on or upon)."The salesman imposed on the elderly woman by selling her a faulty vacuum cleaner at an inflated price. "actioncharactermindmoralpersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination."The bishop imposed his hands on the candidate's head during the ordination ceremony. "religionritualChat 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 carefully imposed the newspaper pages on the metal chase before sending them to the press. "technologywritingindustryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading