impost in English

noun
1
a tax or similar compulsory payment.
Article I, Section 8 allows for the collection of ‘taxes, duties, imposts and excises’ but only ‘for revenue necessary’ to finance the government and not to protect any business or industry from international competition.
2
the top course of a pillar that supports an arch.
This space was ornamented with low relief sculpture of winged sun disks and wreaths located on the pedimented impost blocks between the arches.
noun

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "impost" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "impost", or refer to the context using the word "impost" in the English Dictionary.

1. I said that no one has the right to impost his views on others.

2. The single man on average wages will think carefully before welcoming such an impost.

3. Transient immobilization and stravation add to this impost on the skeletal muscle mass.

4. In the situation of zollverein, the basic principles of impost reformation are the same.

5. Just as the poll tax impost jarred on an historically raw nerve, so will the ban on fox-hunting.

6. Brazil's impost?metro (taxometer) hit one trillion reais ($582 billion) 35 days earlier this year than in 20

7. Following a Developed nations CDM impost at US$5-00, when developed nations will trade at Voluntary $12-25 is unfair.

8. For present purposes there are in my judgment two streams of authority relating to moneys wrongly extracted by way of impost.

9. Alette definition, (in classical architecture) a part of a pier, flanking a pilaster or engaged column and supporting either impost of an arch

10. Thus, the main characters are all from Zhang family, especially the most impost players are all from the core member of Zhang family.

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12. Whether they bear the name vat tax, sales tax, poll tax, duty, impost, excise, capitation, flat, stamp, or whatever other name, they nevertheless all remain either a direct tax or an indirect tax.

13. 435: In agreement with Sultan Wais of Sawad there was laid on the Kahraj people an impost of four thousand Assloads of rice for the use of the army, and he himself was sent to collect it