impost

Other forms of impost

plural

imposts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about impost

What does impost mean?

impost means "money collected under a tariff". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impost?

impost has 2 syllables: im-post. The stress falls on "im".

What is another word for impost?

Close synonyms include customs, customs duty, custom, springer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is impost a common word?

impost is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.