How to pronounce "imposes"

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Transcriber: Translate TED Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs

Why act now?

The best time to act was yesterday.

The second best time is today.

Every year that we don't reduce emissions

represents another 55 gigatons of greenhouse gases

that future generations will have to scrub out of the air.

That would cost 8 trillion dollars a year,

almost half the entire US economy today.

And that price doesn't include the cost of people forced to move,

the natural world transformed and lives lost.

It's much cheaper to develop new technologies

that don't emit carbon dioxide

than to capture carbon dioxide that we've already emitted.

Every ton of carbon dioxide we emit now imposes a burden on us and the planet,

but also a debt that would have to be paid by our children

and untold generations to come.

The sooner we start fixing this, the easier it'll be.

So do what you can where you can.

Vote, change your diet and your commute,

organize, plant trees, advocate for ideas,

advocate for science

and most importantly, advocate for action today.

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Phonetic Breakdown of "imposes"

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IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

IH0 M P OW1 Z AH0 Z

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Definition of "imposes"

Verb

To establish or apply by authority.

Example: "Congress imposed new tariffs."
To be an inconvenience (on or upon)

Example: "I don't wish to impose upon you."
To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way

Example: "Social relations impose courtesy"
To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
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.

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