imputed

[ im-pyoo-tid ]

adjective

1. estimated to have a certain cash value, although no money has been received or credited.

Other Words From

• unim·puted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of imputed¹

First recorded in 1905–10; impute + -ed ²

Example Sentences

"If a family member endorses a publicly endorses a candidate for office, the code says it could be imputed to the judge," Alfini said.

From Salon

"The same applies to other executives in the Trump Organization because their knowledge can be imputed to the entity," Rahmani said.

From Salon

"We still got a couple of weeks before the actual meeting, so if anybody imputed some specific basis points of what I was for, that’d be inaccurate," he said.

From Reuters

As for making young William “a man,” Higgins means that he will introduce him to jazz, a meaning that I suspect has never before been imputed to that phrase in human history.

From New York Times

But the headline gratuitously imputed a religious interpretation to Dreyer’s piece, which said nothing about God, except to quote the last line as just that — the last line.

From Washington Post