burden1 nounburden2 verb
burdenbur‧den1 /ˈbɜːdn $ ˈbɜːrdn/ ●○○ noun 
WORD ORIGINburden1
Origin:
Old English byrthenEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Carrying the burdens of leadership is never an easy task.
- I don't want to be a burden to my children when I'm old.
- Running the business on my own can be a burden at times.
- She has three children and heavy financial burdens at home.
- The minister has the burden of explaining why he must raise taxes.
- We need to reduce the tax burden of middle-income Americans.
- A burden on even the sunniest temperaments, never mind those suffering from inordinate melancholia.
- After his attentions she supposed he would propose marriage and relieve her of the odious burden of Rushworth.
- But they bore the burden anyway.
- Coupled with the financial implications if carers decided they could no longer shoulder this burden the case for supporting respite care becomes overwhelming.
- It is women who have traditionally borne the daily burden of caring for ill parents, children, relatives and friends.
- Non-domestic rates are also regressive but various measures have sought to ease the burden.
- She added, by way of conversation, that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living.
- Wives bore a greater burden in dealing with these daily difficulties than did their preoccupied husbands.
Longman Language Activatorsomething that is your job or your duty to do
something that you have to do because it is your job or your duty, for example dealing with something or looking after someone: · The house is my responsibility, and I can't just let it fall apart.· Having children is a big responsibility and I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet.responsibility to do something: · It is a manager's responsibility to set clear expectations for his or her employees.take on a responsibility (=accept a responsibility): · I have a bad habit of taking on more responsibilities than I can handle.
spoken something that someone is responsible for doing: · I'm not doing the shopping - that's your job.· Agency employees must enforce regulations once they're approved. That's their job. it's somebody's job to do something: · It's my job to make sure all the guests are comfortable.
something that someone is officially, morally, or legally responsible for doing: · I don't give out parking tickets because I like to - it's my duty.it is somebody's duty to do something: · I think it's your duty to tell her what you know.· My duty as a police officer is to find out the facts and communicate them to the proper people.do your duty: · As the families wept openly, the prosecutor urged the jury to do its duty and convict Ballenger.
something difficult or worrying that you are responsible for: · Running the business on my own can be a burden at times.burden of doing something: · The minister has the burden of explaining why he must raise taxes.heavy burden (=a very difficult burden): · She has three children and heavy financial burdens at home.carry a burden (=have that responsibility): · Carrying the burdens of leadership is never an easy task.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
This should ease the burden on busy teachers. the heavy burden of taxation Military spending imposes a huge strain on the economy. Caring for an elderly relative can become an intolerable burden. We should hire another secretary to lighten Barbara’s workload.
(=be responsible for something)· At the age of 16, Suzy bore the burden of providing for her family.
· This situation places the main burden of family care on women.
· I was glad my brother was there to share the burden.
· Smaller classes would ease the burden for teachers.
(=change who carries it)· The tax shifts the burden towards the rich.
· The tax burden falls most heavily upon the poorest people.
· If I deal with the all the practical problems, that will lift the burden from your shoulders.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + burden· Caring for elderly relatives can be a heavy burden.
· the financial burden of a large mortgage
· These changes will ease the tax burden for small businesses.
· He made a serious attempt ease the country's debt burden.
(=very hard to bear)· Too many exams can place an intolerable burden on young people.
· The new legislation put an unfair burden on employers.
phrases· He felt unable to cope with the burden of responsibility.
· The burden of taxation falls more heavily on the poor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=have big debts)· Many poor countries are saddled with huge debts.
This should ease the burden on busy teachers. (=a strong feeling of guilt)· Many children feel a burden of guilt when their parents divorce, believing that they have caused the separation.
the heavy burden of taxation Military spending imposes a huge strain on the economy. Caring for an elderly relative can become an intolerable burden. We should hire another secretary to lighten Barbara’s workload. law (=the need to prove that you are right in a legal case)· The burden of proof is on the prosecution.
(=a lot of responsibility, that worries you)· Being the only wage earner put a great burden of responsibility on my father.
· Many women do paid work and also shoulder the burden of childcare.
(=the amount of tax paid)· The total tax burden has risen only slightly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· But there is an additional tax burden or deadweight loss that is pure waste.· This sometimes throws an additional casework burden on their colleagues.· But Mr Robinson claimed the ratepayers had the to blame for the additional financial burden.· The downstream area, where people are being resettled, has problems enough without the additional burden of silt.· In such circumstances, the necessary task of self publicity, can become a considerable additional burden.· In that respect, physicians take on an additional burden beyond their immediate remit.· The additional burdens on the firm when dealing with Investment Business clients are reviewed in section 0403.5 below.
· The administrative burden would be lifted from local government; it would then be able to concentrate on the job in hand.· The agency apparently also wants to ease its administrative burdens under the contracting ordinance.· Authorities will face greater administrative burdens through the more detailed tendering provision.· The administrative burden is increased but the processes are the same as those already in place for fundholding.· How are management costs and the administrative burden of any of these models minimised?· Legal regulation tends to create administrative burdens, resentment and loss of self-esteem through the undermining of professional autonomy.· Extra responsibilities and administrative burdens were a major factor.· Payment by automatic direct debit will further relive your administrative burden.
· They reflect a tough tradition among rural women of shouldering a heavy economic burden and speaking their mind.· They have their economic burdens essentially doubled.· The question is whether remedial action would impose an unacceptable economic burden.· Old age becomes an economic burden on younger, more productive people.
· Every encounter with the world was already confrontation enough without the extra burden of blame and guilt.· Why then do managers take on these extra burdens?· The temporary rise in blood pressure increases the oxygen requirements and creates an extra burden on the heart.· Information from unconventional sources not related to the industry carries the extra burden of having to be proved relevant or urgent.· Of course, that created an extra burden.· Not a happy marriage, and not one that could take on the extra burden of a weeping widowed friend.· But the Consumer Credit Trade Association was concerned about the cost of insurance, as an extra burden for consumers.
· Similarly, campaigning in the field imposed an increasing financial burden.· Owners are also looking into increased revenue sharing as a way to ease the financial burdens that force teams to move.· Yeovil are £700,000 in debt, and a visit from Arsenal would ease the club's financial burden.· And, my parents were determined to continue the business and not be a financial burden to me.· The financial burden of repairs has meant the council faces a year of cost cutting in other departments.· Still, the financial burden on Flynn was huge.· They thus increasingly promoted this alternative means of easing the financial burden of appliance ownership.· One is that high interest rates have raised financial burdens directly for weaker firms that are still net debtors.
· Short runs just placed a greater burden on employees.· It is a great burden to be a Callanish eagle and live at the site itself.· Wives bore a greater burden in dealing with these daily difficulties than did their preoccupied husbands.· For the children of suicides there is an equal if not greater burden to bear.· Bowman recalls the weight to be somewhat less, but the M60 was a great burden.· Industry sources say consequential loss claims could prove a greater burden than the building repair costs.· This latest act of outrage reminds us of one of the great burdens of the modern world.
· This can be a heavy burden.· The cost of these programs places a heavy burden on those who work.· We all have heavy burdens on our time.· It seemed a very heavy burden to put on thin cords of water-soaked jungle vine.· If this applies, small indexed sequential files bear a heavy burden compared with larger files.· As for crime and robberies, that is carrying just as heavy a burden now as it possibly can.· The loss of Elliott left Hammer very lightweight in attack and placed a heavy burden on regular strikers White and Harris.· Along with the freedom of the press, there was also a heavy burden of social responsibility.
· Until 1975, while copper prices were high, this burden was bearable.· Teachers and administrators found to be either public officials or public figures have a higher burden of proof in defamation suits.· The oil industry would be faced with the cost of meeting the ever higher burden of controlling emissions at the manufacturing plants.· In the 1930's the new high tax burdens resulted in the Weighalls turning Petwood into a hotel.· Lower ratios do not make proper use of cheaper capital; higher ratios risk an unacceptably high fixed-interest burden in bad times.· Porters pushed past, their trolleys piled high with sweet-smelling burdens.· Once again, the immediate issues were the royal prerogative and the high tax burdens entailed by the monarch's profligate spending.
· There is considerable concern that they will be a huge burden to employers.· Unfortunately, the media is creating a huge burden for this poor child.· They are still struggling under a huge burden of debt.· It will put a huge burden on industry and will cost jobs.
· They have created an intolerable burden on people on low incomes.· And one night, I knew that he found himself an intolerable burden, and that in the woods he lost himself.
· The drawings he made at various ports of call provide the main burden of this show arranged by the Goethe-Institut.· The main burden borne by the peasantry remained that of the State and the landed nobility.
· It carries forward the interests of women without imposing an undue burden on employers.
NOUN· The expense of servicing the debt burden increased the budget deficit, which in turn stimulated inflation.· Their debt burden, more than $ 24 billion, has never been higher.· The debt burden is weighing more and more heavily on the weakest economies.· In addition, Alpha demanded a higher cash flow from Mega to meet its debt burden.· By the end of 1992, Metrologie claims it will have reduced its debt burden from £122.26 million to £59.77 million.· Needless to say, virtually all debtor governments are counting on continued negotiations with their creditors to alleviate their debt burdens.· The countries in which they live labour under a massive debt burden - £784 billion of it.· The current debt burden will be written off and the organisation liberated from the public finance system.
· Mr. Mellor Oh yes - and for the decade following 1981-82, we reduced the tax burden.· And to an extraordinary extent, diverse groups agree on what the maximum tax burden should be.· Their tax burden has fallen from 37 % of their income to 35 %.· The overall tax burden, according to the Tax Foundation, is the third-lowest in the nation.· By contrast the tax burden on the bottom fifth of households has risen from 31 % to 38 % of their income.· Today the employer-employee payroll tax burden has hit a joint 15. 3 %, if you include Medicare.· In April IR35 effectively doubled my tax burden.· Their tax burden jumped about 50 percent, just because of inflation.
VERB· Rather than reducing problems, these strident warnings about food safety add to the burden of human suffering.· So much for the dissenting argument of some goofy liberals that requiring uniforms would be an added financial burden for the poor.· So, delay will benefit no one and may add to the financial burdens in already hard-pressed regions.· And why impose this added burden on yourself?· Those ill thought out policies would add massively to the burden on employers and reduce profitability and employment.· In fact, it had just added to his burdens.· All of these things together can tip you over into real depression, another added burden at a difficult time.· Road pricing - charging for road space as it is used - will merely add to the burden.
· Love is meeting needs, which means that anyone motivated to love automatically assumes a burden to discover what the needs are.· Herrera prevailed on the lawyer, Manuel Payno, to assume the burdens of the financial post after the loss of Gutierrez.· Western technology has been made to assume a burden which it can not fairly be expected to carry.· In most cases it assumes that the burden of tax falls where the legal form says it falls.· Cooper says that the magazine had assumed Horticulture and its burden of debt to make itself less attractive for takeover.
· People can not afford to bear a heavier burden, and we shall not put a heavier burden on them.· To what extent are the various taxes shifted and who bears the ultimate burden?· If this applies, small indexed sequential files bear a heavy burden compared with larger files.· Some have struggled all their lives, and now are forced to bear this unexpected burden during retirement.· Is the potential for misidentification any less when the defence bear the burden of proof?· They continue to bear the provider burden.· Share prices had therefore to bear the burden of adjustment.· Wives bore a greater burden in dealing with these daily difficulties than did their preoccupied husbands.
· Radio ad revenues shrink in a recession and debt could become a much heavier burden.· The loan would not become a burden to your dependents.· All things became a burden, and I lost my courage and will.· It is optimistically forecast that women will become freer from household burdens as a result of these technological innovations.· Old friends would not want to know us, perhaps frightened that we would become a burden upon them.· Elderly indigents were becoming burdens on society because children were defaulting on their end of the deal.
· The rising generation of students were more optimistic about the future and did not carry the emotional burdens of the Cultural Revolution.· The policy sciences carry the burden of providing useful knowledge.· They have both carried the burden of bearing the brunt for Britain in international competition for the last decade and more.· I carried that burden myself, thinking it was my own fault because of what I heard at church.· Information from unconventional sources not related to the industry carries the extra burden of having to be proved relevant or urgent.· Under our current code, employers officially carry half the burden, which they can deduct at 50 %.· No young man offers to carry this burden for her.· They continue to carry the burden of tremendous unemployment or underemployment in the countryside.
· I help to ease that burden for him.· They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.· From time to time, authorities step forward to ease the burden of incomprehension.· The agency apparently also wants to ease its administrative burdens under the contracting ordinance.· Non-domestic rates are also regressive but various measures have sought to ease the burden.· Moreover, there is no doubt that in large classes this practice can ease the burden on the class teacher.· Reserves Perry Carter and Lionel Washington handled the emergency responsibilities with little problem, easing the burden of an undermanned secondary.
· If either ran out of cash, the burden would fall on all Lloyd's members.· Not surprisingly, such proposals often meet considerable resistance from those on whom the burden would fall.· Their tax burden has fallen from 37 % of their income to 35 %.· In the Balkans the burden fell most heavily on the Slavs of the Orthodox community.· The central administration of the Modular Course has always been keenly aware of the burden falling on Field Chairs.· A heavy tax burden would fall on certain sectors of the middle classes, but not on others.· For every year since 1981, the tax burden has fallen.· Everywhere, however, the burden of service fell most heavily on the poorer groups in society.
· Other options are available to the speaker, depending on where s/he feels the burden of his/her message lies.· Francesca also feels the burden of challenging stereotypes in class.· Later she phoned to tell me how much lighter she felt, as if a burden had somehow been lifted from her shoulders.· The inexperienced advice worker thus need no longer feel a burden on colleagues, as the need for support has formally been recognised.· They didn't treat her badly, but she was made to feel a burden.· I feel a heavy burden has been lifted from me.· They had apparently felt as if a burden had been lifted from them and why tempt fate by attempting to get her back?· Since Minnie was born, she had felt the burden of her on her soul.
· Despite their relatively high wages, these constraints had imposed burdens on working conditions.· And why impose this added burden on yourself?· Similarly, campaigning in the field imposed an increasing financial burden.· Unfortunately, some policyholders were inadequately insured, thus imposing an unfair burden on all the others.· White House officials said that President Bush was loath to impose burdens on industry as the country began to emerge from recession.· That will not impose any great burden upon the public purse.· This imposes no real burden in small problems solved by hand.· We want an agreement that promotes business and does not impose burdens or barriers upon the business community.
· Their refusal to curtail spending plans and to increase the burden on poll tax payers is expected.· He said that the Labour party intends to increase the burden of council spending met locally to 20 percent.· Even more pointedly, they argue that dealing with one client may increase the burden on others in equal need.· Taking advantage of the rules increases the administrative burden.
· Paper could also be easily recycled and would considerably lift the waste disposal burden.
· We intend to lighten the burden of capital taxes and reform the taxation of savings.· One of the main aims of the Michigan legislation was to lighten the prosecution's burden.· Resist oppression, lighten the burden of the underdog, spread understanding and reason.· Many poor people were grateful for anything which lightened their burden, others were resentful of patronage which went with it.· One way or another, though, we must have the scope to lighten our self-imposed burden of debt.· She fought against the sudden unexplainable impulse to tell him everything, to lighten the heavy burden of grieving alone.
· This is not intended to place a greater burden on recognised bodies than on traditional practices.· The cost of these programs places a heavy burden on those who work.· An alternative strategy for the government in these circumstances was to place the burden of financing social provision upon local government.· Short runs just placed a greater burden on employees.· It was thought fair to avoid placing too frequent a burden on places like Belfast.· Diplomatically, he placed the burden of responsibility on the state officials, calling upon them to find solutions.· Chancellor Kohl has placed the heaviest burden of paying for unification on the average wage-earner.· They say such a requirement would place an unfair burden on them.
· The burden of proving that a clause satisfies the reasonableness test is on the party who seeks to rely on the clause.· Recent California proposals attempt to shift the burden to parents to prove their fitness.· Decided cases suggest that the burden of proving a clause reasonable will often be difficult to discharge.· The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant.· The burden of proving that the authority had misused its powers rested with the applicant for judicial review.
· These would put a massive burden on business.· Their reluctance to get involved, however, put more of the burden on the Contras.· That would put a lighter burden on the prosecution, and improve the chances of convicting an offender.· That puts the burden on finding new ways to grow.· People can not afford to bear a heavier burden, and we shall not put a heavier burden on them.· I put the burden of this ball club on myself.· What is more, it could put a major burden on Citizens Advice Bureaux.· But this does put an exceedingly onerous burden on women who are required to bear, rear and look after the offspring.
· The aim of my proposals was to reduce the burden on the low paid.· By reducing domestic burdens, family planning is a fundamental part of any definition of empowerment.· These changes have reduced the burden of taxation on the wealthy considerably.· The partnership purchases workers' compensation and liability insurance, which reduces the bureaucratic burden on participating companies.· Mr. Mellor Oh yes - and for the decade following 1981-82, we reduced the tax burden.· The social services may be able to provide help to reduce your burden.· Universities and colleges welcomed the move, seeing it as victory for their long-running campaign to reduce the inspection burden.
· To relieve policyholders of this burden, we have now index-linked everyone's cover.· We have tried to explain to the government that by moving, the Rabari are relieving it of a burden.· She added, by way of conversation, that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living.· Moreover, a lot of money would be left over to relieve the tax burden.· It would relieve us of the burden of suppressed emotion.
· He really couldn't share the burden of campaigning any more arid took a back seat.· This is foolish-a shared burden is a burden lightened.· This time, let's share the burden.· Private industry should share the burden.· What she wanted, she decided, was that at last some one would use the right words, share the burden.· There is companionship and a sharing of the burden between co-wives.· It is one thing to face a situation alone, quite another to be able to share a burden or the excitement.· The burden should be shared but the burden should not be taken away.
· If this achieves nothing else at least it helps shift the burden of guilt.· Recent California proposals attempt to shift the burden to parents to prove their fitness.· Training will be a real partnership between government and industry, not an excuse to shift all the burden on to employers.· To shift that burden to schools is a mistake, even a dereliction.· It is predicted that these changes will result in significance shifts in the rating burden.· To neglect maintenance, however, is only to shift the burden from one part of the household budget to another.· The changes are intended to shift the burden from tax payer to polluter.· The tax will shift the burden of local taxation between different households and different income groups.
· Coupled with the financial implications if carers decided they could no longer shoulder this burden the case for supporting respite care becomes overwhelming.· Why, he asked, should the taxpayer shoulder the burden of expropriation?· After the publicists, casting directors began to shoulder the burden.· They reflect a tough tradition among rural women of shouldering a heavy economic burden and speaking their mind.· Voice over Swindon is one of the eighties boom towns which has had to shoulder the burden of recession.· Why don't we shoulder all the burdens of this wretched country?
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1[countable] something difficult or worrying that you are responsible for: - Gullibility is another name for misplacing the burden of proof.
- Here the prospect of building an ethic on spontaneity and awareness brings about an unexpected shift of the burden of proof.
- Is that because of the racial difference or the difference in the burden of proof in criminal and civil cases?
- Is the potential for misidentification any less when the defence bear the burden of proof?
- Moreover both counsel would shortly before the summing-up have reminded the jury of the burden of proof.
- People even disagree on whether the burden of proof here lies with the atheists or the believers.
- There is the important question of the reversal of the burden of proof.
- This is similar to a negligence test, but in the statutory action the burden of proof is on the employer.
- After the publicists, casting directors began to shoulder the burden.
- He failed to shoulder the responsibility, which Government should shoulder, for imposing the tax in the first place.
- I think everyone has got to shoulder the responsibility for defeat, not just Graham.
- It does indeed make those who require nursing care through no fault of their own shoulder the cost.
- Voice over Swindon is one of the eighties boom towns which has had to shoulder the burden of recession.
- Why, he asked, should the taxpayer shoulder the burden of expropriation?
His family responsibilities had started to become a burden.burden of The burden of taxation has risen considerably.burden on I don’t like being a burden on other people.bear/carry the burden If things go wrong he will bear the burden of guilt.the tax/financial/debt burden2the burden of proof law the duty to prove that something is true3[countable] something that is carried SYN load → beast of burdenCOLLOCATIONSverbsbear/carry/shoulder the burden (=be responsible for something)· At the age of 16, Suzy bore the burden of providing for her family.place/put a burden on somebody· This situation places the main burden of family care on women.share the burden· I was glad my brother was there to share the burden.ease/reduce/lighten the burden· Smaller classes would ease the burden for teachers.shift the burden (=change who carries it)· The tax shifts the burden towards the rich.a burden falls on somebody· The tax burden falls most heavily upon the poorest people.lift the burden from somebody's shoulders· If I deal with the all the practical problems, that will lift the burden from your shoulders.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + burdena heavy/great burden· Caring for elderly relatives can be a heavy burden.a financial burden· the financial burden of a large mortgagea tax burden· These changes will ease the tax burden for small businesses.a debt burden· He made a serious attempt ease the country's debt burden.an intolerable burden (=very hard to bear)· Too many exams can place an intolerable burden on young people.an unfair/undue burden· The new legislation put an unfair burden on employers.phrasesthe burden of responsibility· He felt unable to cope with the burden of responsibility.the burden of taxation· The burden of taxation falls more heavily on the poor.burden1 nounburden2 verb
burdenburden2 verb VERB TABLE
burden
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | burden |
| he, she, it | burdens | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | burdened |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have burdened |
| he, she, it | has burdened | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had burdened |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will burden |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have burdened |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am burdening |
| he, she, it | is burdening | |
| you, we, they | are burdening | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was burdening |
| you, we, they | were burdening | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been burdening |
| he, she, it | has been burdening | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been burdening |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be burdening |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been burdening |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- An excellent means of putting money in the pockets of the poor without burdening taxpayers.
- Clinton was initially burdened with a do-nothing fund-raiser, but quickly replaced him with a young whiz named Rahm Emanuel.
- Heavy public spending burdened its economy.
- I did not burden him, though he seemed to feel burdened.
- I hate to burden you with this.
- Reva Bergen trudged up the steep walk, burdened with grocery sacks.
- Richard was riding towards her and he seemed weighted down as well, as if his armour burdened him.
- The past does not burden the present - but you learn by it, and do not repeat your mistakes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES This should ease the burden on busy teachers. the heavy burden of taxation Military spending imposes a huge strain on the economy. Caring for an elderly relative can become an intolerable burden. We should hire another secretary to lighten Barbara’s workload.
(=have big debts)· Many poor countries are saddled with huge debts.
This should ease the burden on busy teachers. (=a strong feeling of guilt)· Many children feel a burden of guilt when their parents divorce, believing that they have caused the separation.
the heavy burden of taxation Military spending imposes a huge strain on the economy. Caring for an elderly relative can become an intolerable burden. We should hire another secretary to lighten Barbara’s workload. law (=the need to prove that you are right in a legal case)· The burden of proof is on the prosecution.
(=a lot of responsibility, that worries you)· Being the only wage earner put a great burden of responsibility on my father.
· Many women do paid work and also shoulder the burden of childcare.
(=the amount of tax paid)· The total tax burden has risen only slightly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· He is not burdened by debt.· Already burdened with a growing debt, the Moores' home and business burned to the ground.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1be burdened with/by something to have a lot of problems because of a particular thing: - Alas! the centuries are fraught with pain, and man is burdened by fear and woe.
- Apple is burdened with higher development costs than its competition; yet it has had to cut prices to compete.
- In the county gaols of Gloucester and Dorchester it was only debtors who were burdened with fees.
- James Madison, who was burdened with the War of 1812, was branded as both a warmonger and a coward.
- Malthus was burdened by a fatalism induced by fears of population growth and resource shortages.
- Poor Griet is burdened by more than having to scrub the Vermeer family smalls in this fictional biography of a painting.
- Surgeons should not be burdened with the responsibility of assessing their own degree of risk.
- The colliery is struggling to fulfil its contracts and is burdened by £1.7 million in debts.
- The man, burdened with grocery bags, had trouble walking up the steps.
- After all, few are burdened with having to complete annual income tax returns.
- Apple is burdened with higher development costs than its competition; yet it has had to cut prices to compete.
- In the county gaols of Gloucester and Dorchester it was only debtors who were burdened with fees.
- James Madison, who was burdened with the War of 1812, was branded as both a warmonger and a coward.
- Older manufacturing companies are burdened with tremendous health care costs for retired employees.
- People will then not have to be burdened with the labels of friction and division.
- Surgeons should not be burdened with the responsibility of assessing their own degree of risk.
- The 20-year-old was burdened with a far heavier load during those pre- dawn hours.
- After the publicists, casting directors began to shoulder the burden.
- He failed to shoulder the responsibility, which Government should shoulder, for imposing the tax in the first place.
- I think everyone has got to shoulder the responsibility for defeat, not just Graham.
- It does indeed make those who require nursing care through no fault of their own shoulder the cost.
- Voice over Swindon is one of the eighties boom towns which has had to shoulder the burden of recession.
- Why, he asked, should the taxpayer shoulder the burden of expropriation?
a company burdened with debt → unburden2be burdened with something to be carrying something heavy