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demand
A request that some act be done or payment made in accordance with a legal requirement.
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  1. A request that some act be done or payment made in accordance with a legal requirement.
  2. An urgent requirement or need:
  3. (Economics) The desire for goods or services in an economy, measured as the amount people are ready to buy at a given price:
encumbrance
Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
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  1. Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
  2. (Law) A lien, charge, or claim attached to real property, as a mortgage
  3. (Law) an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
trickery
The act or practice of tricking; use of tricks; deception; fraud
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  1. The act or practice of tricking; use of tricks; deception; fraud
fraud
A person who deceives or who is not what he or she pretends to be; impostor; cheat
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  1. A person who deceives or who is not what he or she pretends to be; impostor; cheat
  2. Deceit; trickery; cheating
  3. (--- Law) Intentional deception to cause a person to give up property or some lawful right
infliction
The act of inflicting
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  1. The act of inflicting
  2. The act or process of imposing or meting out something unpleasant.
intrusion
An inappropriate or unwelcome addition.
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  1. An inappropriate or unwelcome addition.
  2. The rock mass produced by an intrusive process.
  3. The movement of magma through cracks in underground rocks within the Earth, usually in an upward direction. &diamf3; Rocks that form from the underground cooling of magma are generally coarse-grained (because they cool slowly so that large crystals have time to grow) and are called intrusive rocks.
Find another word for imposition. In this page you can discover 16 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for imposition, like: demand, encumbrance, obtrusion, craftiness, trickery, fraud, command, intrusion, pressure, deception and hypocrisy.

Sentence Examples

  • According to common opinion, the matter and form of ordination to the episcopate were the imposition of the consecrating bishop's hands with the words, " Receive the Holy Ghost."

  • Would it be such an imposition to take just one day off to go see my parents?

  • Ordination is to be effected by imposition of hands.

  • The imposition of this tax involved a rough and ready assessment of every village in the protectorate.

  • For this reason the catechumens are anointed with holy oil both before and after baptism; the one act (of eastern origin) assists the expulsion of the evil spirits, the other (of western origin), taken in conjunction with imposition of hands, conveys the spirit and retains it in the person of the baptized.

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