
"That is what we have rejected," Kissinger explains: "That is what we call the imposition, under the thinnest veneer, of a Communist government."Ī Special Supplement: Vietnam: How Government Became Wolvesĭr. It's hard to argue the contrary, even if the imposition is a complex one, involving peer pressure, advertising, the community, male-biased cultural values and so on.


noun UK A task imposed on a student as punishment.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun religion A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony used e.g.noun printing Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.noun An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.noun That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.t., 4.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun (Print.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type.noun (Eccl.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.noun An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others cheating fraud delusion imposture.Univ.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment. noun That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined charge burden injunction tax.noun The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.noun An exercise imposed upon a student as a punishment a task.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun A trick or deception a fraud an imposture.noun That which is laid on, enjoined, levied, enforced, or inflicted, as a burden, tax, duty, or restriction specifically (in the plural), in English history, duties upon imports and exports imposed at the pleasure of the king.noun In printing, the laying of pages of type or plates upon an imposing-stone or the bed of a press, and securing them in a chase.noun A laying or placing as a burden or obligation the act of levying, enjoining, enforcing, or inflicting: as, the imposition of taxes or of laws.noun The act of positing or fixing affixment attachment: with on or upon.noun A placing, putting, or laying on: as, the imposition of hands in ordination or confirmation.


noun The arrangement of printed matter to form a sequence of pages.noun A burdensome or unfair demand, as upon someone's time.noun Something imposed, such as a tax, an undue burden, or a fraud.noun The act of imposing or the condition of being imposed.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
