imposition
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6.1
- noun
- /ˌɪmpəˈzɪʃən/
- Formal
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imposición
- The new tax law includes the imposition of higher rates for luxury goods.
- imposition of law
- imposition of sanctions
- imposition of liability
What about the imposition of racial classification?
- What about the imposition of racial classification?
- Rather, it was the imposition of institutional religion that did that.
- People, you know, people admire that it it's not just simply the imposition of Western individuality.
Examples
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The next major policy was the imposition of mandatory busing for school desegregation, as discussed above.
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The Indian Express framed the imposition of the Emergency as an attack on free speech.
Academic text (2017) -
That would be a different kind of imposition of a limit, right?
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What is war but the imposition of our will upon another?
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Rather, it was the imposition of institutional religion that did that.
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What about the imposition of racial classification?
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The main reason for the decline was the imposition of the Emergency on the world's largest democratic country.
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These are the conditions in which we live... ...because of the imposition of American imperialism.
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In the years leading up to and following the imposition of the visa, acceptance rates hovered between 8% and 17%.
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The people of Palestine strongly resisted the imposition of the British Mandate over them.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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6.1
The process of making a law official by a government body
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7.7
The act of causing pain or punishment to someone
Antonyms
How Burdensome
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3.4
487
2.5
- Formal
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6.1
340
3.0
∞
1.0
- Formal
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3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Imposition comes from the parts im- ('on') and pose ('to place') and is related to the verb impose and the word position. So an imposition is something 'placed on' people — for example a tax or rule put on a country.