• (GA) IPA: /ɪmˈpoʊz/
• (RP) IPA: /ɪmˈpəʊz/

impose (imposes, present participle imposing; past and past participle imposed)

1. (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Death is the penaltie impos'd.

   Congress imposed new tariffs.

   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

2. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience (on or upon)

   I don't wish to impose upon you.

3. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way

   Social relations impose courtesy

4. To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
5. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
6. 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.

• imposition

• French: imposer
• German: auferlegen, aufzwingen
• Italian: imporre
• Portuguese: impor
• Russian: облага́ть
• Spanish: imponer

• French: imposer
• German: auferlegen
• Italian: abusare
• Portuguese: abusar
• Russian: навязыва́ться

• Italian: imporre