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Impose vs Declare - What's the difference?

impose | declare |

In transitive terms the difference between impose and declare

is that impose is to establish or apply by authority while declare is to make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.

In intransitive terms the difference between impose and declare

is that impose is to be an inconvenience while declare is to make a declaration.

impose

English

Verb

(impos)
  • To establish or apply by authority.
  • * Milton
  • Death is the penalty imposed .
    Congress imposed new tariffs.
  • * 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
  • Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
  • to be an inconvenience
  • I don't wish to impose upon you.
  • to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
  • Social relations impose courtesy
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=Arindam Rej , title=Norwich 4 - 2 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Norwich soon began imposing themselves on that patched-up defence with Holt having their best early chance, only to see it blocked by Simpson.}}
  • To practice a trick or deception.
  • To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
  • To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
  • Derived terms

    * imposition * superimpose * imposure

    declare

    English

    Verb

    (declar)
  • (obsolete) To make clear, explain, interpret.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XV:
  • Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.
  • * Boyle
  • To declare this a little, we must assume that the surfaces of all such bodies are exactly smooth.
  • To make a declaration.
  • To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.
  • He declared him innocent.
  • (cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though all batsmen have not been dismissed.
  • To announce something formally or officially.
  • declare bankruptcy
    declare victory
    (cricket) declare (an innings) closed
  • To affirm or state something emphatically.
  • To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
  • * 1984 , Richard Woodbury and Anastasia Toufexis, " Law: The Trouble with Harry," Time , 2 April:
  • The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.
  • To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
  • (computing) To explicitly include (a variable) as part of a list of variables, often providing some information about the data it is expected to contain.
  • The counter "i" was declared as an integer.

    Derived terms

    * declarant * declaration * declarative * declaratory * declarer * declare war

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