impose

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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
impose (verb)
transitive verb
1.
a) to establish or apply by authority - impose a tax impose new restrictions impose penalties
b) to establish or bring about as if by force - those limits imposed by our own inadequacies C. H. Plimpton
2.
a) - place set
b) to arrange (as pages) in the proper order for printing
3.
- pass off impose fake antiques on the public
4.
intransitive verb
to force into the company or on the attention of another - impose oneself on others to take unwarranted advantage of something - imposed on his good nature
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
impose (verb)
to establish or apply as a charge or penalty
SYNONYMS:
assess, charge, exact, fine, lay, levy, put
RELATED WORDS:
dock, excise, mulct, penalize, tax; extort, shake down, wrest, wring; bleed, fleece, gouge, milk, skin, squeeze; coerce, compel, force; inflict, wreak; set; reapply, reimpose, relay
NEAR ANTONYMS:
abate, diminish, lessen; forgive, release; condone, disregard, excuse, gloss (over), gloze (over), ignore, pardon
remit
impose (verb)
to take unfair advantage of
SYNONYMS:
abuse, capitalize (on), cash in (on), impose (on upon), leverage, milk, pimp, play (on upon), use, work
RELATED WORDS:
jerk around, manipulate, mistreat; bleed, cheat, fleece, overcharge, skin, soak, stick; commercialize, commodify
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