different between stratagem vs imposition

English

Etymology

From Middle English *stratageme, from Old French stratageme, from Latin strategema, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (strat?g?ma, “the act of a general, a piece of generalship”), from ????????? (strat?gé?, “to be a general, command an army”), from ????????? (strat?gós, “a general, the leader or commander of an army”). See strategy.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?st?æt.?.d??m/

Noun

stratagem (plural stratagems)

1. A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
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     While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.

Related terms

• strategic
• strategist
• strategy

Translations

Further reading

• stratagem at OneLook Dictionary Search

Old French

Etymology

From Latin strategema, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (strat?g?ma).

Noun

stratagem m (oblique plural stratagens, nominative singular stratagens, nominative plural stratagem)

1. strategy; stratagem

English

Etymology

From Middle English imposicioun, from Old French imposicion, from Latin impositio

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m.p??z???n/

Noun

imposition (countable and uncountable, plural impositions)

1. The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
2. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
3. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.
4. (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
5. (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
6. (Britain) A task imposed on a student as punishment.

Synonyms

• (act of imposing and the like): imposure, infliction, obtrusion
• (that which is imposed, levied, or enjoined): burden, charge, enjoinder, injunction, tax
• (excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction): cheating, deception, delusion, fraud, imposture, trick

Translations

References

• imposition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• imposition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

imposition f (plural impositions)

1. imposition (all senses)

Middle English

Noun

imposition

1. Alternative form of imposicioun