Burden

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A burden is a heavy weight that is difficult to carry. Metaphorically it refers to anything difficult or troubling.

Burden may also refer to:

• Burden, Kansas, United States
• Burden, Luxembourg
• Burden of proof
• Burden, in cost accounting, an old term for overhead (business) (O/H) costs
• Burden, nautical, on old term for tonnage coming fron the archaic burthen or byrthen, a measure of a ship's cargo carrying capacity.
• Burden (music), a term in music for the chorus or refrain, or the drone of an instrument
• "Burden in My Hand", a single by Soundgarden
• "Burden", a single from the album Watershed by progressive death metal band Opeth.

As a surname

• Chris Burden, American avant-garde artist
• Henry Burden, 19th century industrialist
• Michael Burden, dean of New College, Oxford

[edit] See also

• Onus

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