greatest burden

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandburden

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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burden
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbɜː.dən/us
/ˈbɝː.dən/
a heavy load that ...
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(Definition ofgreatandburdenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Correspondingly, men and women with thegreatestburdenof childcare responsibilities had increased risk of psychological distress, but this risk was significantly greater for men.
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Allowing such intuitions to guide the therapeutic process is both the most cherished preserve and thegreatestburdenof the psychodynamic approach to treatment.
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Polysomnography is therefore least applicable to severe dementia, which has thegreatestburdenof sleep pathology and agitation.
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This was the ultimate purpose - to transform consciousness through opera, with thegreatestburdenplaced on the final apotheosis.
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This one will be a blessing if it reduces the swelling which is theirgreatestburden, the 317,000 young conscripts in their ranks.
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Ourgreatestburdenis the upkeep of roads, which tells very hardly on the district.
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We have a scheme that leaves the poorest families and the poorest students with the highest andgreatestburdenof debt when they leave university.
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If the cost of living is to be unpegged and repegged at a different level, it is again they who will suffer thegreatestburden.
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Paradoxically, the amendment would impose thegreatestburdenon those employers who already have well-developed employee involvement policies.
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It is possibly this latter function which might place thegreatestburdenon his already stretched resources.
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It is a very hard-pressed court because it bears thegreatestburdenof all.
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They talk as though pensions were thegreatestburdenon our society.
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Thegreatestburdenin putting the country right has been borne by the ordinary worker: let there be no doubt about that.
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They would take the longest to repay and thus would bear thegreatestburdenof that policy.
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The extraordinary thing is that thegreatestburdenof the rates is placed upon those shop-keepers who own premises and occupy considerable areas.
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They are thegreatestburdenthat business has to bear at present.
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At the same time, we are making certain that those with the largest incomes and the largest capital carry thegreatestburden.
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Thirdly, will it help the least well-off members of our society who have borne thegreatestburdenof the recession over the past few years?
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Students from the lowest income families now leave university with thegreatestburdenof debt.
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Because of the refusal to equalise the cost, the areas with the greatest need will carry thegreatestburden.
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