Synonyms of the word

imposition

• n. The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
• n. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
• n. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.
• n. (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in…
• n. (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and…
• n. (Britain) A task imposed on a student as punishment.

burden

• n. A heavy load.
• n. A responsibility, onus.
• n. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
• n. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
• n. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
• n. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
• n. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A birth.
• n. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).
• v. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
• n. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
• n. The drone of a bagpipe.
• n. (obsolete) Theme, core idea.

encumbrance

• n. Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
• n. (law) an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.

enforcement

• n. The act of enforcing; compulsion.
• n. A giving force to; a putting in execution.
• n. That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.

incumbrance

• n. A burden; a thing that must be carried.
• n. (law) an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.

infliction

• n. The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition.

load

• n. A burden; a weight to be carried.
• n. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
• n. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
• n. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity…
• n. (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
• n. The volume of work required to be performed.
• n. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
• n. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
• n. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
• n. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
• n. A unit of measure for various quantities.
• n. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
• n. The charge of powder for a firearm.
• n. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
• n. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
• n. (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
• n. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
• v. (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
• v. (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
• v. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
• v. (intransitive) To receive a load.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
• v. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
• v. (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a…
• v. (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
• v. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
• v. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases.
• v. (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
• v. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
• v. (transitive) To provide in abundance.
• v. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.

onus

• n. A legal obligation.
• n. (uncountable) Burden of proof, onus probandi.
• n. Stigma.
• n. Blame.
• n. Responsibility; burden.