heavy burden
collocation in Englishmeaningsofheavyandburden
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heavy
adjective
uk/ˈhev.i/us/ˈhev.i/
weighing a lot, and needing effort to move ...
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burden
noun[C]
uk/ˈbɜː.dən/us/ˈbɝː.dən/
a heavy load that ...
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(Definition ofheavyandburdenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofheavy burden
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The rules of ritual purity imposed aheavyburdenof domestic duty on the women in traditional families.
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So everything that is in excess becomes aheavyburden.
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In the absence of most men, cotton growing was aheavyburdenon the women and children who remained at home.
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Treatment placed aheavyburdenon family including children and spouses.
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Theheavyburdenof the war emerges very clearly in this respect, with large numbers of porters dying, while recruitment itself was very disruptive.
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However, this surveillance system is aheavyburdenand remains random and unsatisfactory.
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Thisheavyburdenon timber sellers indicates the distortion of the stumpage market and the poor incentive for forest production.
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Moreover, many of those who had to bear such aheavyburdenthroughout the long war are impatient with the pace of development.
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There is an extremelyheavyburdenon informal caregivers, and on agencies providing social services and residential accommodation.
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This is a ratherheavyburdenfor an algorithm of this size and sophistication.
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But it also bears aheavyburdenif it is to become the authoritative text for the next generations of students and scholars.
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Many commentators have argued that 'globalization' created an additionalheavyburdenon welfare states in the 1980s and 1990s.
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This puts aheavyburdenon the first two verbs, as they must provide strongly prototypical instances of the relevant combinatorial patterns.
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Most relatives felt aheavyburdento make the right choice, particularly when the older person had little ability to make the decision.
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For a small state with a fragile economy this was aheavyburden.
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Moreover, paying their stipends was aheavyburdenon the shogun or the local prince (daimyo).
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As aheavyburden, he carries the marks of his bourgeois origins.
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Clearly, they are more difficult to apply, and impose a relativelyheavyburdenon the patient.
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When one combines taxes at district, regional and national level, there seems to be aheavyburden.
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Aheavyburdenis also placed on the shoulders of incrementalism and path dependence.
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