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UK
/bˈɜːdən/
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[ 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
- The company said yesterday that that burden had become 'unsupportable in the long term'. Times, Sunday Times
- The added demands brought about by the ageing population will place an insupportable burden on acute hospital services.
- Soviet women carry the main burden of shopping, homemaking and child rearing.
- The overall tax burden, according to the Tax Foundation, is the third-lowest in the nation.
- The burden of his espionage responsibilities gives him a distinct air of desperation.
- It was the least encumbered of all the tenures with obsolete and burdensome features, reminiscent of an older day, when land-holding involved public rights and duties as well as private rights of ownership.
- Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formulæ, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- Cultural practices have survived or fallen only in part because of their effect on the strength of the group, and those which have survived are usually burdened with unnecessary impedimenta.
- He appeared periodically in the villages with his eight donkeys, or neddies as he called them, with jingling bells on their headstalls and their burdens of two sacks of small coal on each. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
- She felt a burden lifting off her shoulders and smiled at the carefree feeling that permeated her senses.
