Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome. synonym: burdensome.
- adjective Law Entailing more liabilities than benefits or imposing significant obligations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Burdensome; oppressive.
- In Scots law, imposing a burden in return for an advantage; being for a consideration: as, an onerous contract: opposed to gratuitous.
- Synonyms 1. Heavy, weighty, toilsome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Burdensome; oppressive.
- adjective (Scots Law) a good and legal consideration; -- opposed to
gratuitous .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
imposing orconstituting a physical, mental, or figurativeload which can beborne only witheffort .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not easily borne; wearing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Internet broadcasters have been subject to what they call onerous rates since a ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board in June of 2007.
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Icelandic citizens have balked at what they describe as the onerous terms of the current agreement, which would see every household have to contribute around €45,000 of the sum, worth around 40 percent of Iceland's GDP.
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The company has also taken a £50m hit on what it called onerous sports rights contracts.
This is Money | Home 2009
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However, the number of reports required and monthly quotas and taxes remain onerous in a country where most people have no car or telephone.
Cuba's Raul Castro sets up framework for jobs market, small-business sector Marc Frank 2010
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And yet when she or rather Peterson hired accountants to estimate their total tax level - a burden she characterizes as onerous - she placed them in eight different cities with "top-notch public school districts."
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And yet when she or rather Peterson hired accountants to estimate their total tax level - a burden she characterizes as onerous - she placed them in eight different cities with "top-notch public school districts."
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And yet when she or rather Peterson hired accountants to estimate their total tax level - a burden she characterizes as onerous - she placed them in eight different cities with "top-notch public school districts."
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Through providing a billing and provisioning platform, resellers can offer customers a fully scalable range of IT services such as hosted virtual desktops, exchange and communications, VoIP, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), virtual server infrastructure and cloud storage on a 'pay monthly' basis without long term onerous contracts, he said.
ARN News 2010
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And yet when she or rather Peterson hired accountants to estimate their total tax level - a burden she characterizes as onerous - she placed them in eight different cities with "top-notch public school districts."
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Rep. Darrell Issa asks businesses to name onerous government regulations
latimes.com - News 2011
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