In reality, the levels of work varied: some internationals seemed overburdened with tasks and responsibility, some seemed underburdened, and some faced apparently just the right amount of work.
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Overburden
//ˌəʊ̯vəˈbɜːdn̩//
Synonyms for "overburden" (76 found)
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Bulgarian
1 entries- претоварвам verb (to overload or overtax)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to overload or overtax)
Hungarian
1 entries- túlterhel verb (to overload or overtax)
Swedish
1 entries- överbelasta verb (to overload or overtax)
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He said the increase would avoid overburdening taxpayers who have subsidised the railways by £31 billion since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Before much progress was made with the inverts, however, the movement became accelerated, and it was decided to lighten the load over the tunnel by removing some of the soil, […]. This reduction in the overburden arrested the movement, and the inverting and centring were completed, and the tunnel opened again to traffic on April 9, 1949.
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Such rocks have been changed by baking in a terrestrial pressure-cooker. Then they have been disinterred: kilometres of overburden must have been removed.
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