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Collocations for impose - verb

ADVERB

effectively
The terms of the contract were effectively imposed rather than agreed.
simply
New technology cannot be used successfully if it is simply imposed on an unwilling workforce.
centrally (esp. BrE)
a centrally imposed school curriculum
externally
the pressure of having to meet externally imposed targets
artificially
Motivation to learn must come from the child; it cannot be artificially imposed.
forcibly
The will of the majority has been forcibly imposed on the minority.
arbitrarily
People did not accept these national borders which had been arbitrarily imposed.
unilaterally
One side in the conflict cannot unilaterally impose a settlement.

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VERB + impose

seek to, try to

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PREPOSITION

on, upon
The government has imposed a ban on the sale of handguns.

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Impose is used with these nouns as the subject:
judge, magistrate, regulation, statute

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Impose is used with these nouns as the object:
ban, belief, blockade, boycott, burden, ceiling, censorship, charge, condition, conformity, constraint, control, curb, curfew, cut, cutback, deadline, demand, discipline, duty, embargo, excise, fee, fine, freeze, hardship, idea, ideology, injunction, limit, limitation, martial law, measure, morality, moratorium, obligation, order, penalty, prohibition, punishment, quota, regime, regulation, religion, requirement, restraint, restriction, rule, sanction, sentence, strain, structure, surcharge, suspension, tariff, tax, toll, treaty, tyranny, uniformity, view, vision, will

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