imposition

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 3.38 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
2. noun An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
3. noun That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
4. noun A trick or deception put or laid on others.
5. 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.
6. noun A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
7. noun A task imposed on a student as punishment.

Similar words

infliction coercion impose enforcement coercive diktat duress subjugation punishment penalty

Often followed by

of on and upon by or is in was

Word family

impose imposed imposes imposing impositions