Imposition is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IMPOSITION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of imposing
• the action or process of imposing something or of being imposed
• a thing that is imposed, in particular an unfair or unwelcome demand or burden
• a tax or duty.
• the imposing of pages of type.
• a particular arrangement of imposed pages
• The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
• That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
• An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
• An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
• The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
• The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.
• the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
• an uncalled-for burden
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• something imposed; as levy, tax; an excessive or uncalled-for requirement or burden

Words related to IMPOSITION

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Words that contain IMPOSITION

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How to use IMPOSITION in a sentence

• He carefully avoided, as far as possible, the imposition of direct burdens on the people, that he might not injure the popularity of the expedition.
• By a compromise congress was forbidden to prohibit the importation of slaves prior to 1808, but the imposition of a tax of ten dollars a head was permitted.
• It is not always possible to raise the price of a commodity in exact proportion to every additional imposition laid upon it.
• This is, what every naturalist supposed it be, also a great imposition.
• Let there be a revival in the silk-hat industry by all means, but there must be no imposition of any one kind of hat on the public.
• Too great an imposition is put upon the eye to expect it to follow unaided the extremely circumscribed gestures of the organs of speech visible in ordinary speaking.
• Such exercise of devotion is essentially superfluous and a rather humorous imposition upon the world.
• My intention was to demonstrate that I would tolerate no imposition.
• Jesus Christ performed all His miracles by the imposition of hands.
• He laid the same imposition on the clergy, without giving himself the trouble of seeking for a pretext.
• Hence arose a thousand abuses, vexatious suits, and pretences for imposition upon all those who lived in or near these places.
• The imposition of useless tasks, fatiguing to the children and perhaps injurious to the young intelligence, is thus avoided.
• These records are likewise of frequent value to the judge for his consideration in connection with the imposition of sentence.
• He seemed to show great fortitude, but it was all an imposition upon the public.
• The demand was inveighed against as an imposition, seeing no troops had ever served.
• To those in her midst she is terribly imposing, but they forget that there is more than one kind of imposition.
• It is usually wise, when practicable, to obtain funds for necessary governmental purposes by the imposition of taxes which are willingly paid.
• The public is thus constantly liable to imposition.
• Whether reference be had to revenue, the primary object in the imposition of taxes, or to the incidents which necessarily flow from their imposition, this is entirely true.
• Caesar wrote my name in the Imposition Book, but, having raised his face and given one look at my swollen, tearful eyes, he deliberately crossed the name out again.
• He does not believe in any absolute right or wrong in such a matter as the imposition of duties upon imports.
• It is an imposition on an audience to have to sit quietly through a long speech of which they can not hear a word.
• Judge Wilkinson had a difficulty with a tailor in Louisville, Kentucky, who attempted an imposition upon him to which he would not submit.
• We allow the imposition of no duty with a view of giving advantage to one class of persons, in any trade or business, over those of another.

Similar words containing POSI without suffix tion and without prefix im

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