ONUS


Meaning of ONUS in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the burden/onus of proof law (= the need to prove that you are right in a legal case )

The burden of proof is on the prosecution.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

place

That Act also places the onus on the knife carrier to show that he had good reason for possessing it in public.

Having thus cleverly disarmed his remarks, he effectively placed the onus for taking them to heart squarely on Robby.

put

The law puts the onus on the lender to carry out necessary checks.

By contrast the bottom up approach puts the onus on the employee to do a self appraisal and then discuss it.

Each of these assumptions is so questionable as to put the onus of proof very heavily on the trade unions.

In the second place to put the onus of preventing censorship in libraries on individual librarians is unreasonable and unrealistic.

This would put a greater onus on the forest to provide more income.

It does, however, put the onus of proof, case by case, on those who would nationalise industry.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

By contrast the bottom up approach puts the onus on the employee to do a self appraisal and then discuss it.

Inevitably the onus rests on the buyers and users to specify the products needed.

It prefers to publish Charters laying the onus for provision of services on others.

Maybe this takes the onus off what goodness is.

The onus is now on Untaet and the World Bank to prove their worth.

The onus will be on the accused to prove that they did not abuse or discriminate.

The deputy judge concluded that the onus of establishing testamentary competence had not been discharged.

Whenever this happens, the onus is on you to control the call and steer the conversation to a successful conclusion.

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