impose

/ɪmˈpəʊz//ɪmˈpoʊz/

verb

  1. 1

    To establish or apply by authority.

    Congress imposed new tariffs.
  2. 2

    To be an inconvenience (on or upon)

    I don't wish to impose upon you.
  3. 3

    To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way

    Social relations impose courtesy
  4. 4

    To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).

  5. 5

    To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.

  6. 6

    To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.

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