Burden and Office

Burden

Burden noun - Something one must do because of prior agreement.

Usage example: the burden of homework prevented the youngster from joining his friends at the game

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Office and burden are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Office" instead a noun "Burden".

Nearby Words: burdened, burdensome, burdening

Office noun - Something one must do because of prior agreement.

Usage example: one of the chief offices of a friend is to be there in someone's hour of need

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Burden and office are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Burden" instead a noun "Office".

Nearby Words: official, officer

old	old burden	old office
full	full burden	full office
complete	complete burden	complete office
legal	legal burden	legal office
Other adjectives: actual, real, large, huge, main, secret, major, biggest.

A mentor in an office has considerably more power to make things easier on his/her intern protege than a warrior mentor has to lighten the burden on his sword-swinging student.

Source: Fair-Weather Mentor
Conveniently, Reacher Gilt's Dragon is an arsonist and burns the office down, letters and all, relieving Moist of the burden.

Source: Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Sasha's therapist Coz in A Visit from the Goon Squad keeps one in his office because it relieves him and his patients from the burden of eye contact.

Source: Freudian Couch

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