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Abstract In this paper, we discuss the properties of the embedding operator $i_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}}^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}}:M_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}}^{\infty }{\hookrightarrow}L^{\infty }(\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$ , where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$ is a positive Borel measure on $[0,1]$ and $M_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}}^{\infty }$ is a Müntz space. In particular, we compute the essential norm of this embedding. As a consequence, we recover some results of the first author. We also study the compactness (resp. weak compactness) and compute the essential norm (resp. generalized essential norm) of the embedding $i_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{1},\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{2}}:L^{\infty }(\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{1}){\hookrightarrow}L^{\infty }(\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{2})$ , where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{1}$ , $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{2}$ are two positive Borel measures on [0, 1] with $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{2}$ absolutely continuous with respect to $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{1}$ .