Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A legal obligation.

    The onus is on the landlord to make sure the walls are protected from mildew.

    Pflicht

    правовое обязательствоpravovoje objazatelʹstvo, обязательствоobjazatelʹstvo

  2. (countable, uncountable)Burden of proof, onus probandi.

    Beweislast, Onus

    бремя доказательстваbremja dokazatelʹstva

  3. (countable, uncountable)Stigma.

  4. (countable, uncountable)Blame.

    He'll always bear the onus of having caused the accident.

  5. (countable, uncountable)Responsibility; burden.

    The onus is on those who disagree with my proposal to explain why.

    The onus is on you to make the first move.

More definitions
  • an onerous or difficult concern

Examples

5 sentences
  1. That put the onus back on us.

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  2. The onus should fall on platforms.

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  3. The onus is on all of them.

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  4. The onus is on the teacher to make sure the student is actually learning something.

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  5. The onus is on the prosecution team to prove that Yanni killed his wife.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
legal obligation:
burden of proof:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
legal obligation:
burden of proof:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin onus (literally “burden”).

Learned borrowing from Latin onus (literally “burden”).

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Forms

plural: onuses / onera
Singularonus
Pluralonuses / onera

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
onus — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto