imposition

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an uncalled-for burden

   I listened but resented the imposition.

2. 2
   noun

   An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.

   They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.

3. 3
   noun

   the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)

4. 4
   noun

   The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

5. 5
   noun

   That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.

6. 6
   noun

   A trick or deception put or laid on others.

7. 7
   noun

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.

Etymology

From Middle English imposicioun, from Old French imposicion, from Latin impositio.