overtaxing

verb

present participle of overtax
as in taxing

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  1. taxing
  2. overloading
  3. overburdening
  4. hampering
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  • The deal exempts Starbase Louisiana from local property taxes but requires the company to pay $25 million a year to the local taxing authorities.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Significant power players have no issue with taxing the wealthy twice.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of taxing
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  • Expecting heavy traffic on the site, the archive has outsourced the database to external servers to avoid overloading its own.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
  • These demands are not likely to ease as football becomes more obsessed with physicality, so, from an Arsenal perspective, the importance of not overloading their right-backs only heightens.
    — Art de Roché, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of overloading
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  • Northeast Kansas City residents have expressed concerns about lack of community feedback and concentrating homeless services in certain areas, potentially overburdening a few neighborhoods rather than spreading services out more throughout the city.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Such a structure ensures that benefits are targeted where they are most needed without overburdening the government’s budget.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of overburdening
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  • The officials said the restrictions were disrupting high-speed military drones, hampering Ukraine's ability to intercept Russian attacks and conduct operations along the front line.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Kyiv sees this as an attempt to pressure it into concessions by hampering its aerial defense and military operations.
    — David Hickey, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of hampering
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