Impute means to attribute, ascribe, or credit something, often unfairly. The word comes from French and Latin.
Impute bedeutet, etwas zuzuschreiben, anzuklagen oder zu verdanken, oft zu Unrecht. Das Wort stammt aus dem Französischen und Lateinischen.
| Front | impute \'im-pyut\ |
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| Back | verb To attribute, ascribe, or credit, often unfairly. [From Old French imputer, from Latin imputare, from in- (in) + putare (to assess, reckon). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pau- (to cut, stroke, or stamp), which is also the source of amputate, compute, dispute, count, pavid, puerile, and catchpole. Earliest documented use: 1480.] "'There's a tendency to impute much greater skill on the part of somebody like Jamie Dimon, who is very smooth,' Bill Miller says." - Hugh Son; Bank of America Chief's Tumbles Turn Into Strides; The Washington Post; Mar 10, 2013. |
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