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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
onus
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the burden/onus of prooflaw (= the need to prove that you are right in a legal case)
▪ The burden of proof is on the prosecution.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
place
▪ That Act also places the onus on the knife carrier to show that he had good reason for possessing it in public.
▪ Having thus cleverly disarmed his remarks, he effectively placed the onus for taking them to heart squarely on Robby.
put
▪ The law puts the onus on the lender to carry out necessary checks.
▪ By contrast the bottom up approach puts the onus on the employee to do a self appraisal and then discuss it.
▪ Each of these assumptions is so questionable as to put the onus of proof very heavily on the trade unions.
▪ In the second place to put the onus of preventing censorship in libraries on individual librarians is unreasonable and unrealistic.
▪ This would put a greater onus on the forest to provide more income.
▪ It does, however, put the onus of proof, case by case, on those who would nationalise industry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By contrast the bottom up approach puts the onus on the employee to do a self appraisal and then discuss it.
▪ Inevitably the onus rests on the buyers and users to specify the products needed.
▪ It prefers to publish Charters laying the onus for provision of services on others.
▪ Maybe this takes the onus off what goodness is.
▪ The onus is now on Untaet and the World Bank to prove their worth.
▪ The onus will be on the accused to prove that they did not abuse or discriminate.
▪ The deputy judge concluded that the onus of establishing testamentary competence had not been discharged.
▪ Whenever this happens, the onus is on you to control the call and steer the conversation to a successful conclusion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Onus

Onus \O"nus\, n. [L.] A burden; an obligation.

Onus probandi[L.], obligation to furnish evidence to prove a thing; the burden of proof.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
onus

1640s, from Latin onus "load, burden," figuratively "tax, expense; trouble, difficulty," from PIE *en-es- "burden" (source of Sanskrit anah "cart, wagon"). Hence legal Latin onus probandi (1722), literally "burden of proving."

Wiktionary
onus

n. 1 A legal obligation. 2 (context uncountable English) burden of proof, onus probandi 3 stigma. 4 blame. 5 responsibility; burden.

WordNet
onus

n. an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance]

Wikipedia
Onus

Onus, from Latin, indicates accountability/responsibility

Onus may also refer to:

  • Blame
  • Burden (disambiguation)
  • Legal burden of proof (onus probandi)

Usage examples of "onus".

I heard something in there about Boariyi waiving the onus of vengeance.

The onus of vengeance had not been waived for anyone, only for this match.

Now the onus was hers, and they both knew it, and the broadcast audience knew it.

I ask thee to take time to consider, and if thou dost conclude against, I will have no onus against thee.

The onus was still on the Chief, because it belonged to the last form change, but the minute started fresh from the moment of that change.

All he had had to do was maintain roc form and fly away, and the Chief, stuck with the onus, would have lost in one minute.

But most important, we shall be free at last from the onus a cruel society unfairly placed on us.

We are naturally hesitant to press the French too strongly or to become deeply involved so long as we are not in a position to suggest a solution or until we are prepared to accept the onus of intervention.

To their credit, neither parent ever slapped Joel with the onus of being adopted and they always thought of him as their son.

It seemed to him that he could be rid of the boy and the wretched onus of braids and rosettes all in one stroke.

This is getting us nowhere, so we shall leave the onus on the well-meaning but dogmatic head of Jorkins Brassard.

But with the war ended, Lincoln has conferred diplomatic immunity upon him, and molesting him would only rouse fresh hostilities-with the onus of guilt for them upon us.

He took on himself the onus of having advised our action, and he gave me all the credit of having proposed that we should make a clean breast of everything.

I cannot see the slightest reason why the Irish labourer is to be relieved from the real onus, or from anything else but the name of tithe.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.