imposition

Definitions

General English

  • noun the action of making people pay a tax or of laying down conditions
  • noun an unfair duty or punishment

Accounting

  • noun the act of imposing something

Law

  • noun the introduction of something such as a rule or tax

Media Studies

  • noun the skill or act of setting up and ordering pages for printing

Politics

  • noun the act of putting a tax on goods or services

Publishing

  • noun the act of arranging the pages of film or type so that when a sheet is printed, it will fold correctly into the right page order
  • noun the act of putting together the metal type and blocks on the imposing stone, to be locked into a chase before printing
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