verb
- Compel to behave in a certain way.
- usage: "Social relations impose courtesy"
- Impose something unpleasant.
- usage: "The principal visited his rage on the students"
- synonyms: inflict, bring down, visit, impose
- Impose and collect.
- usage: "levy a fine"
adjective
- Set forth authoritatively as obligatory.
- usage: "the imposed taxation"; "rules imposed by society"
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