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demands on someone
collocation
the difficult things, work, effort, etc. that someone has to do:
His new job makes a lot of demands on him.
With all the demands on lab managers, it can be difficult to have a life outside of the laboratory.
The school's high academic standards place more demands on teachers as well as pupils.
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demand
These days she has lots of demands on her time.
All of this adds up to increased demands on individual board members.
Shorter texts make fewer demands on readers' concentration than longer ones.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Difficult things and people
a (heavy) cross to bearidiom
albatross
ball and chain
bane
be dead meatidiom
be in the clearidiom
bump
chill
equation
hiccup
hindrance
hot potato
impediment
incubus
nut
snag
stumbling block
teaser
teething troubles
thorn in your flesh/sideidiom
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