Burden vs Taxation - What's the difference?
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A heavy load.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
A responsibility, onus.
A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
* Jonathan Swift
The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
(mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
(metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
(obsolete, rare) A birth.
To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word ).
* Bible, 2 Corinthians viii. 13
* Shakespeare
To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
* Coleridge
(music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
* 1846 ,
The drone of a bagpipe.
(obsolete) Theme, core idea.
The act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed
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A particular system of taxing people or companies
The revenue gained from taxes
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As nouns the difference between burden and taxation
is that burden is a heavy load while taxation is the act of imposing taxes and the fact of being taxed.As a verb burden
is to encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).burden
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(wikipedia burden)Etymology 1
From (etyl) burden, birden, burthen, birthen, byrthen, from (etyl) byrden, .Alternative forms
* burthen (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens .
- Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, / To all my friends a burden grown.
- a ship of a hundred tons burden
- (Raymond)
- A burden of gad steel is 120 pounds.
- That bore thee at a burden two fair sons
Verb
(en verb)- to burden a nation with taxes
- I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened .
- My burdened heart would break.
- It is absurd to burden this act on Cromwell.
Derived terms
* burdensome * beast of burdenEtymology 2
From (etyl) bordon. See bourdon.Noun
(en noun)- [...] Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.
- As commonly used, the refrain, or burden , not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone - both in sound and thought.
- (Ruddiman)
Anagrams
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