impose
Signification (Anglais)
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- To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.
- To physically lay or place (something) on another thing; to deposit, to put, to set.
- To apply, enforce, or establish (something, often regarded as burdensome as a restriction or tax: see sense 1.2.2) with authority.
- To place or put (something chiefly immaterial, especially something regarded as burdensome as a duty, an encumbrance, a penalty, etc.) on another thing or on someone; to inflict, to repose; also, to place or put (on someone a chiefly immaterial thing, especially something regarded as burdensome).
- To force or put (a thing) on someone or something by deceit or stealth; to foist, to obtrude.
- To subject (a student) to imposition (“a task inflicted as punishment”).
- To appoint (someone) to be in authority or command over other people.
- (obsolete) To accuse someone of (a crime, or a sin or other wrongdoing); to charge, to impute.
- (obsolete) To put (a conclusion or end) to something definitively.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon.
- (obsolete) Chiefly followed by on or upon.
Concepts
Synonymes
require
impose upon
force on
fob off on
foist on
be a burden
catch up with
cause trouble
Fréquence
Coupé comme
im‧pose
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ɪmˈpəʊz/
Étymologie (Anglais)
In summary
The verb is derived from Late Middle English imposen (“to place, set; to impose (a duty, etc.)”), borrowed from Middle French imposer, and Old French emposer, enposer (“to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”) (modern French imposer), from im-, em- (variants of en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’)) + poser (“to place, put”), modelled after: * Latin impōnere, the present active infinitive of impōnō (“to place or set (something) on; (figurative) to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘on, upon’)) + pōnō (“to place, put; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *tḱey- (“to cultivate; to live; to settle”)); and * Latin impositus (“established; put upon, imposed”), the perfect passive participle of impōnō: see above. The noun is derived from the verb.
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