onerous
Example Sentences
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This could include making staff redundant, or negotiating with landlords to lessen the burden of "onerous contracts".
From BBC
In New York, following a lobbying campaign by Meta, Google and others, Hochul tweaked Bores’s bill to make fines and transparency requirements less onerous and mirror California’s legislation.
There are also growing hopes that regulators in Washington will relax the most onerous of bank capital requirements that had been instituted since the 2008-09 financial crisis.
From Barron's
Many U.S. investors avoid such funds because they see the tax treatment as onerous, says tax expert Robert Willens, but he doesn’t see it as a big negative.
From Barron's
For farmers, higher fertilizer prices add to the stress felt in their budget from onerous input costs, needing higher commodity prices to make farming profitable.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
