Que signifie burden en anglais?

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burden Signification, définition

0 an unpleasant responsibility -- fardeau [ masculine ]
- elderly people who feel they are a burden to their families les personnes âgées qui se sentent un fardeau / une charge pour leurs familles
1 a heavy load -- fardeau [ masculine ]
- He walked slowly up the hill with his burden. Il gravissait lentement la colline avec son fardeau.
2 to cause difficulty for sb -- accabler
- expensive vacations that had burdened him with debt des vacances onéreuses qui l’avaient laissé accablé de dettes
3 something difficult to carry or withstand -- poids écrasant
- the burden of taxation.
4 something to be carried -- fardeau
- He carried a heavy burden up the hill
- The ox is sometimes a beast of burden (= an animal that carries things).
5 to put a responsibility etc on (someone) -- charger de
- She was burdened with various troubles.

In fact, a legal framework in this area would serve only to burden pointlessly a sector that thrives on creativity and spontaneity.
However, the binding nature of this system creates an additional administrative burden.
How can we avoid a disproportionate burden on health funds?
The necessity of travelling, in addition to being a major waste of time, is a significant economic problem and a serious burden on the environment.
Incurring debt to service debt rather than to invest in the future saddles the young people of our nations with a heavy burden.
We need to see that new initiatives can be put forward to lighten that burden.
As has been said, it must also be possible to ease the administrative burden in the next period.
I am thinking in particular of the reversal of the burden of proof and the deletion of the clause excluding the development risk.