0 present participle of overburden --
1 to make someone or something work too hard or carry, contain, or deal with too much: --
The problem of overburdening contributed to the worsening of the local resource squeeze, which was already heavily affected by the highest urbanization rate among industrial nations.
In the earlier stage of overburdening, the cooperative relationship between the central and local governments was seen as shaping local government's operation through informal incentive systems such as grant backing.
This was called 'overburdening' on local government.
There is no central authorization or certification authority that could potentially become a bottleneck if the network were initially too large or grew to an overburdening size.
The problem of overburdening existed in this very central-local financial arrangement.
The two parties' views of overburdening never actually met.
Journalists and scholars became quite vocal about the financial crises in local governments, and this problem of overburdening became one of their favorite targets.
In the mid-1970s, local authorities clearly harbored hostility against the central government's lack of action in the matter of overburdening.
