impost
Tax on imports
An impost is a tax or duty, especially one levied on imported goods.
The word sounds technical and appears mainly in legal, trade, or historical contexts: The colony resented the new impost on sugar.
In architecture, an impost is the horizontal molding or block from which an arch springs—the point where vertical wall meets curved arch.
Tax on traded goods
- dutyRequired moral task
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- levyCompulsory government charge
- exciseRemove by cutting
toll · tribute · assessment · tithe · exaction · revenue · surcharge · import
One that leaps
- archCurved spanning structure
- capitalWealth used for investment
- pierWaterfront landing structure
- pillarUpright architectural support
column · keystone · corbel · vault · abutment · molding · bracket · arcade
Imposed competitive disadvantage
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- burdenOppressive weight or duty
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- allowanceFixed periodic payment
penalty · rating · classification · stakes · conditions · load · carry · topweight
tariff
Tax on traded goods
excise · toll · tribute · assessment · tithe · exaction · revenue · surcharge · import · export
springer
One that leaps
pillar · column · keystone · corbel · vault · abutment · molding · bracket · arcade · lintel
handicap
Imposed competitive disadvantage
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- burdenOppressive weight or duty
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
allowance · penalty · rating · classification · stakes · conditions · load · carry · topweight · welterweight
- taxessales tax, income tax, estate tax, excise tax, corporate tax
- Arch typesbarrel vault, keystone, springer, archivolt, triumphal arches
- arches and vaultsarch, barrel vault, round arch, keystone, springer
- Architectural Featuresdome, Gothic arch, lancet, cupola, rose window
- arch constructionkeystone, arch, vault, barrel vault, spandrel
- Gothic ornamentsgargoyle, tracery, finial, crocket, quatrefoil
impostsubsidy
Financial assistance from government
grant · rebate · refund · tax refund · benefit
impostincome tax
Government charge on earnings
progressive tax · wage tax · capital gains tax · property tax · poll tax
- impostor syndromeFeeling undeserving of success
- court-imposed finesMonetary penalties from judges
- self-imposed rules
impose, imposing, impostor, imposition, imposed, imposture, imposer, reimpose