Usually means: Imposing or forcing something undesirably.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. imposition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. imposition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imposition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imposition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imposition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Imposition, imposition: Wordnik
  7. imposition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. imposition: Wiktionary
  9. imposition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. imposition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. imposition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Imposition, imposition: Dictionary.com
  13. imposition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. imposition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Imposition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Imposition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. imposition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. imposition: Rhymezone
  19. Imposition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. imposition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Imposition: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. imposition: Free Dictionary
  23. imposition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. imposition: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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  1. imposition: Legal dictionary

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  1. imposition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See impositions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
noun:  An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
noun:  That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
noun:  A trick or deception put or laid on others.
noun:  (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
noun:  (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
noun:  (UK, school or university slang) A task imposed on a student as punishment.

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