intransitive verb. To establish or apply as compulsory; levy.

intransitive verb. To bring about by authority or force; force to prevail.

intransitive verb. To obtrude or force (oneself, for example) on another or others.

intransitive verb. To arrange (type or plates) on an imposing stone.

intransitive verb. To offer or circulate fraudulently; pass off.

intransitive verb. To force oneself on or take unfair advantage of others.

noun. Command; injunction.

To lay on, or set on; put, place, or deposit: as, to impose, the hands in ordination or confirmation.

To lay as a burden, or something to be borne or endured; levy, inflict, or enforce, as by authority, power, or influence: as, to impose taxes or penalties; to impose one's opinions upon others.

To obtrude fallaciously or deceitfully; palm off; pass off.

To fix upon; impute.

To subject by way of punishment.

In printing, to lay upon an imposing-stone or the bed of a press and secure in a chase, as pages of type or stereotype plates.

To lay or place a burden or restraint; act with constraining effect: with upon: as, to impose upon one's patience or hospitality.

To practise misleading trickery or imposture; act with a delusive effect: with upon: as, to impose upon one with false pretenses.

transitive verb. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.

transitive verb. To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict.

transitive verb. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.

transitive verb. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.

intransitive verb. To practice tricks or deception.

intransitive verb. to take unfair advantage of (a person, a friendship).

intransitive verb. undefined

noun. A command; injunction.

verb. To establish or apply by authority.

verb. to be an inconvenience

verb. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way

verb. impose something unpleasant

verb. impose and collect

verb. compel to behave in a certain way

"The government will again impose the extraordinary tax on profitable Greek companies in 2011 for earnings derived within the country."

superpose  

to impose upon  

compel  obligate  oblige  

Bose  Brose  Goes  Joes  Jos  

Levy  abuse  administer the Eucharist  anoint  appoint  

imposed  imposes  imposing