onerous
Example Sentences
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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.
With generous federal estate-tax exemptions made permanent in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year, trusts that were created years ago to shield wealth from onerous federal estate taxes may be obsolete.
From Barron's
It accused Nexstar of pushing “to gut severance pay and insert onerous provisions into the union contract that limit workers’ ability to freely negotiate the terms of their own employment.”
From Los Angeles Times
She also raised concerns about conditions attached to the revised proposal that she described as onerous and asked for more information about how the takeover would be funded.
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