Usually means: Forces acceptance or compliance externally.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. imposes: Merriam-Webster
  2. imposes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. imposes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Imposes, imposes: Wordnik
  5. imposes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. imposes: Wiktionary
  7. imposes: Dictionary.com
  8. imposes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. imposes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imposes: Legal dictionary

(Note: See impose as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (impose)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (archaic) To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.
verb:  (Christianity) To lay or place (one's hands) on someone as a blessing, during rites of confirmation, ordination, etc.
verb:  (printing) To lay (columns or pages of type, or printing plates) arranged in a proper order on the bed of a press or an imposing stone and secure them in a chase in preparation for printing.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see sense 1.2.2) with authority.
verb:  To place or put (something chiefly immaterial, especially something regarded as burdensome as a duty, an encumbrance, a penalty, etc.) on another thing or on someone; to inflict, to repose; also, to place or put (on someone a chiefly immaterial thing, especially something regarded as burdensome).
verb:  To force or put (a thing) on someone or something by deceit or stealth; to foist, to obtrude.
verb:  (UK, school or university slang) To subject (a student) to imposition (“a task inflicted as punishment”).
verb:  (archaic or obsolete) To appoint (someone) to be in authority or command over other people.
verb:  (obsolete) To accuse someone of (a crime, or a sin or other wrongdoing); to charge, to impute.
verb:  (obsolete) To put (a conclusion or end) to something definitively.
verb:  (intransitive) Chiefly followed by on or upon.
verb:  To affect authoritatively or forcefully; to influence strongly.
verb:  To encroach or intrude, especially in a manner regarded as unfair or unwarranted; to presume, to take advantage of; also, to be a burden or inconvenience.
verb:  To practise deceit or stealth; to cheat, to deceive, to trick.
verb:  (obsolete) To subject to an impost, levy, tax, etc.
noun:  (obsolete) An act of placing or putting on something chiefly immaterial, especially something regarded as burdensome as a duty, a task, etc.; an imposition.
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