Betekenis van burden In het Nederlands

• 0 a heavy load that you carry:

  • The little donkey struggled under its heavy burden.

  • the burden of responsibility

  • My elderly mother worries that she's a burden to me.

  • Buying a house often places a large financial burden on young couples.

• 1 to trouble someone with something difficult or unpleasant:

  • I don't want to burden you with my problems.

• 2 a duty or responsibility that is hard to bear:

  • I don’t want to be a burden on my children.

• 3 to give someone problems, trouble, or responsibilities:

  • He was burdened with debts.

• 4 a difficult situation or unpleasant responsibility that you must deal with or worry about:

  • ease/lighten/reduce the burden (on sb) By training additional staff, management could significantly ease the burden on its over-worked personnel.

  • heavy/big/enormous burden I sympathize with the heavy burden of paperwork they have to deal with.

  • the administrative/legal burden

• 5 the responsibility of paying money that you owe, or the large amount of money that you owe:

  • bear/carry/assume the burden (for sth) If the new law is passed, tax payers will assume the burden for rising energy costs.

  • financial/economic burden He proposed that the state accept the financial burden.

  • a tax/mortgage/loan burden

• 6 to make someone responsible for something that is very difficult, unpleasant, or expensive to deal with:

  • be burdened with/by sth Borrowers are already burdened with mortgage extras such as arrangement fees and life assurance cover.

  • a nation burdened by heavy unemployment