Impose (IPA: /ˌɪmˈpoʊz/)
| Impose (v. t.) |
To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. |
| Impose (v. t.) |
To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute. |
| Impose (v. t.) |
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. |
| Impose (v. t.) |
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 (v. i.) |
To practice trick or deception. |
| Impose (n.) |
A command; injunction. |
| Impose Synonyms |
Enforce |
| Impose Synonyms |
Visit, Inflict, Bring Down |
| Impose Synonyms |
Levy |
| Spanish Translation |
Impose in Spanish is Imponer |
| Tagalog Translation |
Impose in Tagalog is Igiit |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "No longer may the head of a state consider himself outside of the law, and impose inhuman acts on the peoples of the world." - Robert H. Jackson |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop." - Freedom |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result." - Marshall McLuhan |
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