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encumbrances

/en-kuhm-bruhns/US // ɛnˈkʌm brəns //UK // (ɪnˈkʌmbrəns) //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.