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