imposition

imposition has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
• n.. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
• n.. An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
• n.. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
• n.. The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
• n.. The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.
• n.. the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
• n.. an uncalled-for burden; "he listened but resented the imposition"