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impute

im·pute

UK/ɪmˈpjuːt/ US/ɪmˈpjut/ fairly common

verb

1.

attribute or credit to

  • “We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare”
  • “People impute great cleverness to cats”
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2.

attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source

  • “The teacher imputed the student”

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French imputer, from Latin imputō (“to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute”).

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