stress noun (DIFFICULTY) [ C or U ] a difficult situation caused by too much being needed or expected from a system, resource, etc. : stress on The city is finding it hard to cope with stress on its housing supply. Adding 32 million people is going to put stresses on all of our systems. More @Wikipedia
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