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UK
/bˈɜːdən/
]
[ US /ˈbɝdən/ ]
[ US /ˈbɝdən/ ]
NOUN
- weight to be borne or conveyed
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an onerous or difficult concern
the burden of responsibility
that's a load off my mind - the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
VERB
- weight down with a load
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impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend
How To Use burden In A Sentence
- Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters. Jamaica Information Service
- The company said yesterday that that burden had become 'unsupportable in the long term'. Times, Sunday Times
- Persons thus co-opted by the Senate were liable to the burden of the praetorship , and likewise those whom the Emperor ennobled, unless special exemption were granted.
- He could not shoulder the burden alone.
- They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.
- The severity, universality, complexity of peasant burden overweight, is to determined fundamentally that solving peasant burden overweight needs long period of time and arduousness of problem.
- Hanging on paper, and yet weighed down by leavy burdens* Trade necefijury to Enable us to fuppbrt an enox - motts debt; and yet that debt, together with an excefs of paper* money, working continually towards the dcftruAion of trade. — The Monthly Review
- Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife, corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
- The added demands brought about by the ageing population will place an insupportable burden on acute hospital services.
- If he fails to do so, he is held liable, whereas in an action for negligence the legal burden in most cases remains throughout on the plaintiff.
