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(im-po-si-tion) 4 syllables

Definition

noun. the act of placing something on someone or something.

Example Sentence

He did the favor but considered the request an imposition.

More Example Sentences

They faced the imposition of new guidelines.

Synonyms

burden; obligation; demand

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Rhymes

  • britian
  • fission
  • mission
  • titian
  • wishon

  • addition
  • admission
  • ambition
  • attrition
  • audition
  • clinician
  • cognition
  • commision
  • commission
  • condition
  • contrition
  • dentition
  • edition
  • emission
  • fruition
  • ignition
  • logician
  • magician
  • mccuistion
  • mortician
  • munition
  • musician
  • nutrition
  • omission
  • optician
  • partition
  • patrician
  • permission
  • petition
  • physician
  • position
  • recission
  • remission
  • rendition
  • sedition
  • submission
  • suspicion
  • tactician
  • technician
  • tradition
  • transition
  • transmission
  • tuition
  • volition

  • abolition
  • acquisition
  • admonition
  • ammunition
  • apparition
  • coalition
  • competition
  • composition
  • daffynition
  • decommission
  • definition
  • demolition
  • deposition
  • dietitian
  • disposition
  • electrician
  • erudition
  • exhibition
  • expedition
  • exposition
  • extradition
  • fondkommission
  • imposition
  • inhibition
  • inquisition
  • intermission
  • intuition
  • malnutrition
  • obstetrician
  • opposition
  • politician
  • precondition
  • preignition
  • premonition
  • prohibition
  • proposition
  • recognition
  • recondition
  • repetition
  • reposition
  • requisition
  • retransmission
  • rhetorician
  • statistician
  • superstition
  • supposition

  • academician
  • decomposition
  • geriatrician
  • juxtaposition
  • mathematician
  • pediatrician
  • predisposition
  • presupposition
  • redefinition
  • redeposition
  • reimposition
  • theoretician
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