Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - lumber with

If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you. (BRIT INFORMAL) I was lumbered with the job of taking charge of all the money... She was lumbered with a bill for about ninety pounds. PHRASAL VERB: usu passive, be V-ed P n, be V-ed P n c darkgreen]disapproval