impose
verb (used with object)
to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc..
imposer
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a word derived from
impose.
Example Sentences
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Gold, they said, “is the only commodity held down to a price established 31 years ago and compelled to sell only to the imposer of this strangling restriction—the Federal government.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 10, 2017
President Bush insists that he will be a "catalyst," not an imposer of solutions.
From Time Magazine Archive
But now you can git—git, you thief, you imposer on a decent woman!
From The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco
Subscription to all human creeds implies two dispositions contrary to true religion, love of dominion over conscience in the imposer, and slavery in the subscribers.
From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker
But now I have been utterly defeated, and have failed to discover what that is to which the imposer of names gave this name of temperance or wisdom.
From Charmides by Benjamin Jowett
