Dictionary Entry
imposition
imposition is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
- 2noun
That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
- 3noun
An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
- 4noun
An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
- 5noun
The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
- 6noun
The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose. t., 4.
- 7noun
the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
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- 8noun
an uncalled-for burden
"he listened but resented the imposition"
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