tremendous burden

collocation in English

meaningsoftremendousandburden

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tremendous
adjective
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/trɪˈmen.dəs/us
/trɪˈmen.dəs/
very great in amount or level, or ...
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burden
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbɜː.dən/us
/ˈbɝː.dən/
a heavy load that ...
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(Definition oftremendousandburdenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is atremendousburdento cast upon anybody.
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It would also put atremendousburdenon the candidates, election agents, and everybody concerned.
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All these costs are atremendousburdenon those who own works of artistic merit.
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The great enemy which had thrown upon us such atremendousburdenof anxiety and expenditure has disappeared.
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They are atremendousburdenespecially upon the middle class, the people with fixed incomes or diminishing incomes.
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That means a great increase in the rates, and even if the period is carried over 15 years it will amount to atremendousburden.
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Do those management costs include thetremendousburdenof drugs?
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Not enough has been said about thetremendousburdenof taxation which prevents the expansion of businesses.
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There is also atremendousburdenwhich comes in terms of council tax payments.
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Additionally, there is thetremendousburdenof unemployment.
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The middle class in this country have borne atremendousburdenof taxation.
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The result of that abnormal concentration was to throw atremendousburdenupon the rates in those areas.
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It is atremendousburdenon a great many people, and some people actually fall ill as a result of it.
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It is atremendousburdeneven to suggest that there is aprima faciecase against it.
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I am aware of thetremendousburdenthat the common agricultural policy has been on the economy.
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We have to ask ourselves whether the country can afford such atremendousburdenof taxation.
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There is also a great move now for care in the community, and this is throwing atremendousburdenon to local authorities.
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This, really, is atremendousburdenupon the nation.
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We appreciate that the legislation could place atremendousburdenon the regulatory process, which has much to answer for.
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They have to meet thistremendousburdenacross the board stemming from a social problem.
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