imposes

• assesses
• bleeds
• charges
• coerces
• compels
• docks
• exacts
• excises
• extorts
• fines
• fleeces
• forces
• gouges
• inflicts
• lays
• levies
• milks
• mulcts
• penalizes
• puts
• reapplies
• reimposes
• relays
• sets
• shakes down
• skins
• squeezes
• taxes
• wreaks
• wrests
• wrings

• abates
• condones
• diminishes
• disregards
• excuses
• forgives
• ignores
• lessens
• pardons
• releases
• remits

• verb
  1. To establish or apply by authority.
  2. To be an inconvenience (on or upon).
  3. To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way.
  4. To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
  5. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
  6. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.

• The law imposes strict penalties on those who break the rules.
• She imposes her ideas strongly during team meetings.
• The new policy imposes limits on the use of plastic bags.
• He often imposes unnecessary restrictions on his employees.
• This regulation imposes additional costs on small businesses.

palms

palms off

• counterfeits
• distorts
• entails
• fakes
• falsifies
• fobs off
• foists
• forces
• forges
• imposes
• inflicts
• misrepresents
• palms
• passes off
• wishes

quests

calls for

lays

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