Noun
The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBasically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. Henry Flynt
A friend is never an imposition. Frank Sinatra
Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens. Pierre Trudeau
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. Thomas Babington Macaulay
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. Josiah Warren
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. Maria Montessori