Usually means: Imposed something unwanted on someone.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. foisted: Merriam-Webster
  2. foisted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. foisted: Vocabulary.com
  4. foisted: Wordnik
  5. foisted: Wiktionary
  6. Foisted, foisted: Dictionary.com
  7. Foisted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Foisted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Foisted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. foisted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. foisted: FreeDictionary.org
  12. foisted: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foisted: Idioms

(Note: See foist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (foist)

verb:  (transitive) To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
verb:  (transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit; to stick.
verb:  (transitive) To pass off as genuine or worthy.
noun:  (historical slang) A thief or pickpocket.
noun:  (obsolete) A light and fast-sailing ship.
noun:  (obsolete) A cask for wine.
noun:  Fustiness; mustiness.
adjective:  Pronunciation spelling of first. [Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.]
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