Burden and Labour

Burden

Burden noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.

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Labour and burden are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Labour" instead the word "Burden" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: burdened, burdensome, burdening

Labour noun - Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).

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Burden and labour are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Burden" instead the word "Labour" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: labor, labored, laboured, laborer, labourer

physical	physical burden	physical labour
difficult	difficult burden	difficult labour
heavy	heavy burden	heavy labour
actual	actual burden	actual labour
Other adjectives: intellectual, great, dark, useless, social, mental.

Since conquered Jews, Poles and other victims were forbidden to work (slave labour aside) yet were now part of the Greater German Reich, they became an economic burden, and since deportation was increasingly impractical, mass murder was often seen as cheaper and easier.

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