onus
19
7.9
- noun
- /ˈoʊnəs/
- Formal
:
responsabilidad
- I was hoping to spare you this onus a little while longer, but go inside.
- place the onus
- put the onus
- onus on the employer
So I, I put the onus on to the writer there.
- So I, I put the onus on to the writer there.
- But there's fewer reasons for that and there is more onus on you.
- Because if that's true, then the the onus is on us to do it, you know?
- And, you know, maybe it's not fair to those podcasters that that onus has been put on them.
- But it puts a different kind of onus on each participant, right.
- You're relying on others when you believe now you putting the onus on yourself.
- Instead, the onus is unfairly placed on those with allergies to inform their service.
- Well, let's see, maybe it's the part about putting the entire onus for a person's being treated badly onto themselves.
- And the onus is always on the Democratic Party to be decent, to uphold democracy.
- And so I put the onus on the Democrats to go out and constantly say, look at the impacts of this.
Examples
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And the onus is now on us, as youth, to revitalize that relationship that we have with our culture, language, traditions, and our environment.
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Police officials say that the onus for prosecution rests with the Archaeology Department.
Academic text (2002) -
Will the Budget in November put the onus back?
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The White House is taking the onus from government and putting it onto the person.
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The onus is not on me.
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The onus is on the scientist to prove himself.
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News is more accessible than ever, but the onus is on the reader to find it.
Blog text (13) -
The onus falls on researchers to provide a deeper understanding of their social worlds.
Academic text (2013) -
Instead, the onus is unfairly placed on those with allergies to inform their service.
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As the project leader, she felt the onus of responsibility to ensure everything went smoothly.
Synonyms
∞
3.1
A strong feeling of stress from difficult demands
524
3.2
A duty you feel to do something because it is right or someone helped you
482
3.4
A heavy load or something that causes worry and difficulty
91
4.1
A heavy burden of worry or responsibility
13
7.3
A heavy feeling of worry and responsibility
5
8.1
A heavy burden that makes life hard
1
4.9
A heavy feeling of pressure because you have important duties
Antonyms
How Burdensome
- Informal
6
8.4
2
8.1
482
3.4
- Formal
19
7.9
∞
2.7
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Onus comes from a Latin word onus that means 'burden' or 'load', so you can think of the onus as a heavy responsibility someone must carry. That's why onus today means a duty or unpleasant responsibility.