imposition

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"I understand the imposition I made on him, but hearing "get a Mac" just had me seething.

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Quick take

the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)

noun

an uncalled-for burden; "he listened but resented the imposition"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for imposition.

noun

the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)

noun

an uncalled-for burden; "he listened but resented the imposition"

Example sentences

"I understand the imposition I made on him, but hearing "get a Mac" just had me seething.

If it isn't working, then it's just an expensive imposition sucking away time and funds that could have been spent on something more productive.

The problem with this, of course, that the country is so populated that it is extremely hard to make this drastic of an imposition and follow through with it.

All of these things make this specialized manual labour part of a culture that warrants preservation, not arbitrary value imposition.

We're going to lose conferences, and we're going to lose people who feel uncomfortable with this forceful imposition of ideological attitudes.

However, George Orwell did once point out that a revolution and the subsequent imposition of terror in the UK would actually be very easy to do within our legal system...

The most oppressive and authoritarian thing about it is, at root, that most people appear to enjoy it and not see any problems with it, while you view it as this heinous violation of your freedom and imposition on your private space.

The author hits on it a few times:"It is the extraction and organization of the information that takes time...\nI know full automation is not feasible, since the imposition of meaning onto the raw information is something that I must do, not the computer.

I think a lot of people agree with you in the abstract that it's a huge imposition to not have dates on things, but are unwilling to even right click to actually figure the date out, but they'll start doing measurable discounting of the work immediately if you do the typical thing and put the date front-and-center.