onerous

IPA: ˈoʊnɝʌs

Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort; burdensome.

Examples of "onerous" in Sentences

Rep. Darrell Issa asks businesses to name onerous government regulations
The company has also taken a £50m hit on what it called onerous sports rights contracts.
Internet broadcasters have been subject to what they call onerous rates since a ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board in June of 2007.
However, the number of reports required and monthly quotas and taxes remain onerous in a country where most people have no car or telephone.
And yet when she or rather Peterson hired accountants to estimate their total tax level - a burden she characterizes as onerous - she placed them in eight different cities with "top-notch public school districts."
Icelandic citizens have balked at what they describe as the onerous terms of the current agreement, which would see every household have to contribute around €45,000 of the sum, worth around 40 percent of Iceland's GDP.
Through providing a billing and provisioning platform, resellers can offer customers a fully scalable range of IT services such as hosted virtual desktops, exchange and communications, VoIP, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), virtual server infrastructure and cloud storage on a 'pay monthly' basis without long term onerous contracts, he said.