impost

impost englannista suomeksi

1. tuontitulli

2. imposti, nojakivi

0. Substantiivi

impost englanniksi

1. A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise.

2. (RQ:Dryden Wild Gallant)

3. 1752, (w), ''Political Discourses,'' Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, “Of Taxes,” p.(nbs)120,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806369.0001.000

(..) a duty upon commodities checks itself; and a prince will soon find, that an encrease of the impost is no encrease of his revenue.

4. (RQ:Dickens Tale of Two Cities) before the sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts they had ceased to pay;

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1941|author=Melville J. Herskovits|title=The Myth of the Negro Past|location=New York|publisher=Harper|chapter=3|page=68

6. (quote-text)|title=The Great Nation|page=56|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2003

7. The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race, the handicap.

8. (senseid) The top part of a column, pillar, pier, wall, etc. that supports an arch.

9. {{quote-book|en|year=1798|author=William Gilpin|title=Observations on the Western Parts of England|location=London|publisher=T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies|section=Section 7, p. 79|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809011.0001.000

10. tax

11. imposed

(coi)

12. (l), block (gl)

(syn)

(hypo)