overburdening
present participle ofoverburden
| 单词 | overburdening |
| 释义 | overburdening present participle ofoverburden overburden verb[Toften passive] uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈbɜː.dən/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈbɝː.dən/to make someone or somethingworktoo hard orcarry,contain, ordealwith too much: Insurancecompaniesare already overburdenedwithsimilarclaims. Now 5,000 newchildrenwill beattendingthe district's already overburdenedschoolsystem. Causing difficulties for oneself or others
Examplesofoverburdeningoverburdening In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Despite the hierarchically institutionalized local finance and the illegal practice ofoverburdening, the manipulation of such incentives served as a way of motivating local authorities. From theCambridge English Corpus Because of the ministries' underestimation of the amount ofoverburdening, these efforts were far from eliminating the problem. From theCambridge English Corpus One such example is the problem ofoverburdening, which undermines the financial power of local governments in general. From theCambridge English Corpus Overburdeningthe shelves and clogging the catacombs, these books must be exchanged, their use value refigured and economic value realized, as waste products. From theCambridge English Corpus Local governments compete with each other for national grants and privileges, but in the case ofoverburdening, they have no reason to do so. From theCambridge English Corpus Since there is no central verifying authority involved, there is no concern foroverburdeningthe system as it grows. From theCambridge English Corpus The first section examined the governmental and political environment for issues concerningoverburdening. From theCambridge English Corpus In the mid-1970s, local authorities clearly harbored hostility against the central government's lack of action in the matter ofoverburdening. From theCambridge English Corpus Journalists and scholars became quite vocal about the financial crises in local governments, and this problem ofoverburdeningbecame one of their favorite targets. From theCambridge English Corpus The two parties' views ofoverburdeningnever actually met. From theCambridge English Corpus The problem ofoverburdeningexisted in this very central-local financial arrangement. From theCambridge English Corpus There is no central authorization or certification authority that could potentially become a bottleneck if the network were initially too large or grew to anoverburdeningsize. From theCambridge English Corpus This was called 'overburdening' on local government. From theCambridge English Corpus In the earlier stage ofoverburdening, the cooperative relationship between the central and local governments was seen as shaping local government's operation through informal incentive systems such as grant backing. From theCambridge English Corpus The problem ofoverburdeningcontributed to the worsening of the local resource squeeze, which was already heavily affected by the highest urbanization rate among industrial nations. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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