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belasting — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • burdensomeness noun How difficult or heavy something is to deal with.
  • load verb To put a quantity of goods, cargo, or material onto or into something for transport or storage.
  • tax noun Money that a government requires people or businesses to pay, used to fund public services.

Senses

belasting is used for these senses in English:

  • burdensomeness The state or quality of being burdensome.
  • load The volume of work required to be performed.
  • tax Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).

load — full definition

  1. verb To put a quantity of goods, cargo, or material onto or into something for transport or storage.
  2. verb To fill a weapon with ammunition, ready it can be fired.
  3. verb To transfer data or a program from storage into a computer's working memory, or for a webpage/app to open and become ready.
  4. noun The amount of something being carried, supported, or dealt with.
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