meaning of impose
1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
2. To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc. ; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute.
3. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
4. 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.
5. To practice trick or deception.
6. A command; injunction.
7. impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the
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