encumbrance 的定义
- something that encumbers; something burdensome, useless, or superfluous; burden; hindrance: Poverty was a lifelong encumbrance.
- a dependent person, especially a child.
- Law. a burden or claim on property, as a mortgage.
encumbrance 近义词
burden
更多encumbrance例句
- Often, those restrictions will more heavily constrain Democratic voters for whom added bureaucracy is a more challenging encumbrance.
- For developers this is both incredibly freeing — a chance to make it big without all the encumbrance of a traditional studio — but also supremely precarious.
- He points to the hassles of regulatory compliance and warding off hacks as an unnecessary encumbrance on businesses.
- In LA, Don is an outsider; a Madison Avenue interloper; an encumbrance.
- Dangerfield was no longer conscious of anything but an angry determination to revolt, to be free of all encumbrance.
- The cargo of the sloop hoisted on to the deck by the capstan, compact as he had made it, was an encumbrance.
- So desperate had been the charge that our little craft was now actually a serious encumbrance to the monster.
- An' sell Bruno; he's a vicious brute—nothin' but an encumbrance.
- They set to work together to remove the irons, and his legs were at length freed from this encumbrance at about five oclock.