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Overburden   Listen
noun
Overburden  n.  The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Overburden" Quotes from Famous Books



... conspicuous zeal, and by "taking it out of" the official commissioners of the so-called local administration, or by carrying out valueless bureaucratic experiments. Therein lies for the most part the inducement to overburden their subordinates in the local self-government system. Thus self-government means the aggravation of bureaucracy, increase in the number of officials, and of their powers and interference ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke



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