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Cumbersome 1100 Words You Need Week 34 Day 1

Cumbersome 1100 Words You Need Week 34 Day 1

Cumbersome 1100 Words You Need Week 34 Day 1

/ˈkʌm.bə.səm/ US /-bɚ-/ (adj)

heavy, large and difficult to carry or deal with, awkward, bulky and massive, complicated and problematic, unwieldy, burdensome, ungainly, clumsy

In the last decade, the ability to transfer data electronically has developed enormously. One of the key problems in developing transfer technology is authenticating the web surfer – the identity of the specific person who has performed an action on the internet cannot be known. This inability to identify prevents innumerable entities from providing services via information transfer technology and thus many procedures are still “stuck”, cumbersome and bureaucratic.

Source: https://www.comsign.co.uk/

Antonym: manageable

Adverb: cumbersomely

Noun: cumbersomeness

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