crushing burden

collocation in English

meaningsofcrushingandburden

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crushing
adjective
uk
/ˈkrʌʃ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈkrʌʃ.ɪŋ/
severe:
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burden
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbɜː.dən/us
/ˈbɝː.dən/
a heavy load that ...
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(Definition ofcrushingandburdenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The poll tax for 1991–92 will be seen by many people as acrushingburdenand it will be resented.
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There are too many of these persons who seem comparatively unaffected by the so-calledcrushingburdenof taxation on the higher income groups.
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Then peace would have come, an armed peace, worse than the war itself, with itscrushingburdenof armaments upon both peoples.
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Enemy damage is very serious in many areas, and may prove to be acrushingburdenon certain local authorities.
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The realcrushingburdenof rates is upon the poorest, on the old-age pensioners, on the people with small fixed incomes.
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Under thecrushingburdenof her armaments her finances are strained to the uttermost.
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I do not think it is anycrushingburdenon any port, if it feels that it has a case, to make a submission.
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If one relates the defence burden to the budget of the ordinary family, it is acrushingburden.
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But the rates have become acrushingburden.
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Is there any sign in all that we see, of thecrushingburdenof taxation in industry?
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This mass of taxation, amounting to £1,000,000,000 a year is acrushingburden.
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If we have to pay the insurance premiums, it will be acrushingburdenupon us.
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In addition, we have the great burden of £1,500 million for defence—acrushingburdenin itself.
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A non-contributory pension would be an equal pension putting acrushingburdenof taxation equally on the whole community.
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Perhaps thecrushingburdenof taxation in a country where the average income barely exceeds £2 a week will be reduced.
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Does anyone suggest that this country is not at the present moment carrying acrushingburdenin regard to our armaments?
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That farmer is to have placed upon him acrushingburden.
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Is thatcrushingburdenof defence to go on and on, and crush us?
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Though a trifling burden on the shoulders of the community, it would be acrushingburdento fall upon one man.
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Has he no proposals to make to help those clubs which are facing acrushingburdenbecause of this tax?
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