Definition of "imposition" []

• The act of imposing or the condition of being imposed. (noun)
• Something imposed, such as a tax, an undue burden, or a fraud. (noun)
• A burdensome or unfair demand, as upon someone's time: listened to the telemarketer but resented the imposition. (noun)
• Printing The arrangement of printed matter to form a sequence of pages. (noun)

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• "It's hard to argue the contrary, even if the imposition is a complex one, involving peer pressure, advertising, the community, male-biased cultural values and so on."
• ""That is what we have rejected," Kissinger explains: "That is what we call the imposition, under the thinnest veneer, of a Communist government.""
• "Dr. Johnson shewed, that 'what he called imposition, was only a voluntary declaration of agreement in certain articles of faith, which a church has a right to require, just as any other society can insist on certain rules being observed by its members."