Definition of imposition

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Imposition (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like..

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Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc..
Bam :: Bam (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right..
Injustice :: Injustice (n.) Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.
Protection :: Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade..
All Fools' Day :: All Fools' Day () The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced..
Discrimination :: Discrimination (n.) The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.
Sell :: Sell (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like..
Humbug :: Humbug (n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.
Hum :: Hum (n.) An imposition or hoax.
Iconoclast :: Iconoclast (n.) One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.
Slur :: Slur (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
Humbuggery :: Humbuggery (n.) The practice of imposition.
Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast..
Gouge :: Gouge (n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person..
Imposture :: Imposture (n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
Penitential :: Penitential (n.) A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book..
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
Chouse :: Chouse (n.) A trick; sham; imposition.
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