Shouldering

Synonyms for "shouldering" (21 found)

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Noun(6 words)
burdenburden sharingcarrycarryingcost sharingduty sharing

Related words (10)

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accountabilityarm carrybargebearburden bearingburden sharingcost sharingduty sharinghauljostleleadershipliftramresponsibility uptakerisk bearingshoulder lift

Collocations

10 entries
collective shoulderinginstitutional shoulderingshouldering a burdenshouldering burdenshouldering dutiesshouldering financial riskshouldering responsibilityshouldering riskshouldering the burdenshouldering weight

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1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin Our whole force was mustered and kept constantly on the alert; but, though there may have been something of discourtesy in the occasional shoulderings and hustlings that enforced the police of the ship, things went on good-humouredly.

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[…] at the Jefferson Memorial or the Statue of Liberty, amid the noisy presence and restless shoulderings of other tourists.

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And farther, that being fitted to each other on their flat sides, alternate male and female (see drawing annexed), by means of the shoulderings or wedgewise-securings, and abutments, which will be better and more clearly understood by a view of the drawings annexed to these presents, and to which we hereafter particularly refer;

Source: wiktionary

Furthermore the shoulderings which were put outside the wheels to prevent them from slipping off the axles, are the proclamations of the prophets which lend weight to the evangelical and apostolic writing lest it should be doubted by any of its readers.

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