impost
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A tax or duty, especially one levied on imported goods.
Merchants complained that the new impost eroded the margins on imported wine.
Business noun
A tax or duty levied on goods, especially at import.
The new impost on steel imports lifted domestic prices almost overnight.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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