Impost is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IMPOST in dictionary:

VERB:
• to determine customs duties
• classify (imported goods) according to the duty payable on them
NOUN:
• a tax or similar compulsory payment
• the weight carried by a horse as a handicap.
• the top course of a pillar that supports an arch.
• tax, esp a customs duty
• That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country.
• The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests.
• money collected under a tariff
• the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs

Words related to IMPOST

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Words that contain IMPOST

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How to use IMPOST in a sentence

• The third year has arrived, there has as yet been no question of any impost, indeed I believe that those which are a matter of course in time of war have not yet been put on.
• The double representation of the third in the estates of Dauphiny was voted without contest, as well as equal assessment of the impost intended to replace forced labor.
• In a country where no law can be adopted, no impost established, without the consent of those whom this law is to govern, the public cannot be robbed without being first deceived.
• They can do it, but not under an impost of a hundred and ninety pounds.
• Italy lay crushed and prostrate, trampled down by armies, exhausted by impost and exactions, terrorized by brutal violence.
• But admiration is a sort of impost from which most minds are but too willing to relieve themselves.
• All non-Moslims had to pay the jiziya or poll tax, and the remission of this impost accorded to converts was naturally a powerful incentive to change of faith.
• In the impost bill, the Representatives had, by almost an unanimous concurrence, made a difference between nations in treaty with us, and those not in treaty.
• The impost alone gives us ten or eleven millions annually, increasing at a compound ratio of six and two thirds per cent, per annum, and consequently doubling in ten years.
• Every column is truncated as low as the impost of the arch, but the arches are all entire.
• Impost is a duty paid on any imported article, in the moment of its importation, and of course, it is collected in the sea-ports only.
• I told him the impost still found obstacles, and explained to him the effects which I hoped from our land office.
• Of course, this impost will pay the interest of a debt to that amount.
• The expenses of collecting this impost, will probably be six per cent, on its amount, this being the usual expense of collection in the United States.
• This was the state of the several propositions relative to the impost and regulation of commerce at the date of our latest advices from America.
• Therefore it was necessary to bed one stone deeper than the other, in order that their two summits should be level to receive the lintel, or impost.
• In proposing this repeal he censured the Revenue Act only as an inexpedient or unproductive impost, and not as an illegal or impolitic claim.
• He also objected to a distinctive tax on the members of the established church, to the raising of a fund from pew-rents, and to a graduated impost on the benefices of the clergy.
• This impost had been kept up though the king was now dead.
• The arches, walled-in up to the impost level, are now filled with glass, as well as the opening.
• Rudely sculptured impost blocks also sometimes occur, as at Sompting and at St.
• Sometimes the curvature of the arch does not immediately spring from the capital or impost, but is raised or stilted.
• This impost is a crying injustice, and therefore will I plead for you, for it never shall be said that Gotzkowsky suffered an injustice to be done when he could prevent it.
• He urged the impost scheme, and felt that its failure was fatal to the financial welfare of the country, on which so much depended.
• If they are manufacturers, or in commerce, they support still another burden, that of the license tax, which is a supplementary impost proportioned to their probable gains.
• His views upon the currency and with reference to a proper adjustment of our revenue system, internal as well as impost, are commended to the careful consideration of Congress.
• To illustrate the advantages of this plan, the impost of 1718 with all arrears for five years was discharged in twelve months without needless cost or dispute.

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