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imposition

noun (EXPECTING)
 
 
/ˌɪm.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/

Definition

[S] a situation in which someone expects another person to do something that they do not want to do or that is not convenient: Would it be too much of an imposition to ask you to pick my parents up from the airport?Inconvenience
(Definition of imposition noun (EXPECTING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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