0 present participle of overburden
1 to make someone or something work too hard or carry, contain, or deal with too much:
Despite the hierarchically institutionalized local finance and the illegal practice of overburdening, the manipulation of such incentives served as a way of motivating local authorities.
Because of the ministries' underestimation of the amount of overburdening, these efforts were far from eliminating the problem.
One such example is the problem of overburdening, which undermines the financial power of local governments in general.
Overburdening the shelves and clogging the catacombs, these books must be exchanged, their use value refigured and economic value realized, as waste products.
Local governments compete with each other for national grants and privileges, but in the case of overburdening, they have no reason to do so.
Since there is no central verifying authority involved, there is no concern for overburdening the system as it grows.
The first section examined the governmental and political environment for issues concerning overburdening.
In the mid-1970s, local authorities clearly harbored hostility against the central government's lack of action in the matter of overburdening.
