Crossword clues for onus
onus
- Big load
- Unpleasant burden
- Major burden
- David Soul "Don't Give Up ___"
- Great burden
- Difficult obligation
- Tough task
- Great responsibility
- Burden to bear
- Unwanted responsibility
- Unpleasant responsibility
- Heavy responsibility
- Disagreeable task
- Disagreeable obligation
- Daunting burden
- Burdensome debt, e.g
- A disagreeable responsibility
- The world, to Atlas
- Taxing task
- Large burden
- Daunting duty
- Worrysome thing
- Worrisome thing
- Woeful burden
- Where our burden is?
- Weighty burden
- Weight on one's shoulders
- Unrelished duty
- Treaters' words
- The heavens, to Atlas
- Oppressive burden
- Onerous concern
- It's a bear to bear
- Disagreeable burden
- Burden — responsibility
- "We're treating"
- Word from the Latin for "burden"
- Who the joke is?
- Weighty task
- Weight of obligation
- Wearying load
- Upon whom to have mercy?
- Unwelcome task
- Unwelcome burden
- Unpleasant obligation
- Unpleasant necessity
- Unpleasant job
- Unpaid debt, e.g
- Unenviable task
- Tough responsibility
- The sky, to Atlas
- Source of stress, probably
- Slip-___ [Burden]
- Sisyphus' stone, e.g
- Obligation (or where it might fall?)
- Obligation — charge
- Monkey on one's back
- Metaphorical albatross
- Major obligation
- Major financial burden, say
- Legal obligation
- Heavy charge
- Figurative albatross
- Disagreeable necessity
- Daunting task
- Burdensome task
- Burdensome obligation
- Burdensome duty
- Burden sometimes "on you"
- Borne burden
- "It's our fault"
- "I guess the joke's ___, guys"
- "Have mercy ___"
- "Drinks are ___!" (words from people buying a round): 2 wds
- "Drinks are ___!" (words from generous people at a bar): 2 wds
- ___ probandi (legal term)
- Burden of proof, for one
- Responsibility to bear
- Cross to bear
- Heavy load to bear
- _____ probandi (legal doctrine)
- Weighty obligation
- Load to bear
- ___ probandi (burden of proof)
- Unwelcome work
- Blame
- Duty that's a drag
- It's carried on the shoulders
- Unpleasant task
- Encumbrance
- Obligation, in court
- Albatross, figuratively
- Obligation to do something
- Millstone, e.g
- Something borne
- Heavy burden
- Big burden
- Unpaid debt, e.g.
- Difficult burden
- Albatross, symbolically
- Charge
- Arduous task
- So-called "albatross"
- Unpleasant duty
- Hard thing to carry
- Stigma
- Large charge
- Monkey on one's back, say
- Difficult weight
- "This one's ___" ("Our treat")
- Difficult duty
- Heavy duty?
- It's hard to bear
- An onerous or difficult concern
- Where the burden rests?
- Disagreeable duty
- Extra money's not Britain's responsibility
- Extra cash, not British, becomes burden
- Old star making comeback is a liability
- Old newspaper put up charge
- Obligation - charge
- What could be seen as our responsibility?
- We are responsible for this load
- Nothing before dawn, say, is a burden
- No introduction of an extra burden
- Leader ditched extra responsibility
- Responsibility with respect to America
- Responsibility towards me
- Responsibility ours?
- Responsibility of working with United States
- Responsibility of bachelor abandoning extra benefit
- Responsibility courtesy of you and me
- Responsibility of working American
- Responsibility — and where ours lies
- Burden, duty
- Burden, responsibility
- Burden supported by America
- Burden of responsibility
- Burden borne by Trump's nation
- Duty, and where it often lies?
- Duty in paper round to turn up
- Duty — and where so often it seems to lie?
- Heavy weight
- Great weight to bear
- Tedious task
- Unwelcome obligation
- Difficult task
- Difficult responsibility
- Bothersome burden
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
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
n. 1 A legal obligation. 2 (context uncountable English) burden of proof, onus probandi 3 stigma. 4 blame. 5 responsibility; burden.
WordNet
n. an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance]
Wikipedia
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.