Definition of imposition

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Imposition (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture..

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Discrimination :: Discrimination (n.) The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.
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..
Take-in :: Take-in (n.) Imposition; fraud.
Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.
Humbuggery :: Humbuggery (n.) The practice of imposition.
Subject :: Subject (v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions..
Penitential :: Penitential (n.) A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book..
Humbug :: Humbug (n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.
Sell :: Sell (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
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..
All Fools' Day :: All Fools' Day () The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced..
Imposture :: Imposture (n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
Beard :: Beard (n.) An imposition; a trick.
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like..
Gouge :: Gouge (n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person..
Sham :: Sham (v. t.) To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
Injustice :: Injustice (n.) Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.
Slur :: Slur (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
Gammon :: Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
Swindlery :: Swindler (n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat..
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