impose
/ɪmˈpəʊz//ɪmˈpoʊz/
verb
- 1
To establish or apply by authority.
“Congress imposed new tariffs.”
- 2
To be an inconvenience (on or upon)
“I don't wish to impose upon you.”
- 3
To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
“Social relations impose courtesy”
- 4
To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
- 5
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
- 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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