Definition of imposition

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Imposition (n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.

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Slur :: Slur (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
Injustice :: Injustice (n.) Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.
Gouge :: Gouge (n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person..
All Fools' Day :: All Fools' Day () The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced..
Take-in :: Take-in (n.) Imposition; fraud.
Bam :: Bam (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Sell :: Sell (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.
Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right..
Superciliary :: Superchery (n.) Deceit; fraud; imposition.
Protection :: Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade..
Contribution :: Contribution (n.) An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.
Taille :: Taille (n.) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects..
Sham :: Sham (v. t.) To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
Priestcraft :: Priestcraft (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others..
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture..
Swindlery :: Swindler (n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat..
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like..
Immunity :: Immunity (a.) Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy..
Hum :: Hum (n.) An imposition or hoax.
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