imposition

Meanings

Plural: impositions

Noun

• the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
• an uncalled-for burden
  • "he listened but resented the imposition"
• The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
• An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
• That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
• A trick or deception put or laid on others.
• Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
• A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
• A task imposed on a student as punishment.

Synonyms

burden, charge, cheating, deception, delusion, enjoinder, fraud, imposture, imposure, impot, infliction, injunction, obtrusion, tax, trick