impost

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Borrowed from Middle French impost, itself borrowed or adapted from Latin impōsitus, past participle of impōnō (“to impose”).

=impuesto=, m., tax, impost, duty. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
"To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises." — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

customs, customs duty, custom

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