financial burden
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffinancialandburden
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financial
adjective
uk/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/us/faɪˈnæn.ʃəl/
relating to money or how money ...
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burden
noun[C]
uk/ˈbɜː.dən/us/ˈbɝː.dən/
a heavy load that ...
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(Definition offinancialandburdenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffinancial burden
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Besides saving, some had considered taking up various insurances, most often life assurance, to reduce thefinancialburdenon their children.
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They have the greatest health risk, often bear the large part of thefinancialburdenof raising children, and are able to make independent decisions.
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This produced a spreading of thefinancialburdenfor different communities of their costs for care of the poor.
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It may place a level offinancialburdenon some non-resident parents that restricts their capacity to have adequate contact-care of their children.
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Environmental tax revenues used to reduce the 'financialburden' of energy-using sectors and all industries are subject to abatement requirements.
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He needs everyone's support, particularly to obtain the sponsorship needed to organise such a meeting without placing an intolerablefinancialburdenon those who attend.
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Pressure ulcers reduce patients' quality of life and constitute a significantfinancialburdenon the health system (27;28).
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The debt and the increasingfinancialburdendrove him to resign in 1918.
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The idea of placing somefinancialburdenon the elderly participants derives from three trends.
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The more important issue now appears to be identifying how these extra costs will be funded and who will primarily bear thatfinancialburden.
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Thefinancialburdenof bringing up a large number of children was often cited in the interview at the time of the operation.
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This implies that local governments preserved and strengthened the spending levels of social programs by bearing the brunt of the extrafinancialburden.
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This was proposed because, under the existing system, the highfinancialburdenon privately insured patients prevented market forces from acting.
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Theoretically this was to free the trust from thefinancialburdenof restoring houses by providing a continuous and self-sufficient funding system.
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If these disorders can be prevented or lessened in any way then we are not only helping the individual but are also lessening thefinancialburdenon the health service.
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Furthermore, the subsidy on cocoa chemicals would be increased to alleviate thefinancialburdenwhich the provision of chemicals was bound to impose on farmers (ibid.).
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Community care for demented and non-demented elderly people : a comparison study offinancialburden, service use, and unmet needs in family supporters.
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Community care for demented and non-demented elderly people : a comparison study offinancialburden, service use and unmet needs in family supporters.
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Community care for demented and non-demented elderly people : a comparison study offinancialburden service use and unmet needs in family supporters.
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