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Impost meaning
A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise. | The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race; the handicap.
Example sentences (5)
Many will find this impost will send them to the wall and the community will lose its local pharmacy; at best staff and operating hours will be cut.
Local Government Reform chairman John Bell said while many ratepayers bear the economic brunt of the crisis, councils needed to tread carefully and not be seen as a protected species, putting more impost on ratepayers who fund their pay packets.
Connections would love a high-rated southerner there just to bring him in a touch lighter, but Baldwin and Stewart know he’s going to be competitive no matter what impost he gets.
Tariff main An import or export tariff (also called customs duty or impost) is a charge for the movement of goods through a political border.
The bottom-most part of the arch, called the springing, rests on the impost.