trade barrier
something that keeps people or things apart:
The language barrier is less frightening in print than over the telephone.
barrier between sb/sth (and sb/sth)Lack of regular communication is named time and time again as the major barrier between management and employees.
a number or measurement that is considered to be important or hard to reach:
The average wage in Britain has broken the £20,000 barrier.
The Dow Jones broke the 10,000 barrier early in the day, but closed down 41.85 points at 9923.42.

Examples of barrier

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The authors outlined recent trends in the political behaviour and organisation of seniors, the barriers to senior representation, and the challenges for the future.
The possibilities and barriers of senior power are still very differently structured in different countries.
The older group were no more likely to mention health or disability barriers, or practical problems such as travel and parking.
An implication is that foreign and domestic barriers to agricultural trade are likely to be an important determinant of the shadow price of water.
Because it is only barriers to communication that prevent agreement, it seems more natural to describe this case as 'impeded agreement' rather than disagreement.
In short, it would aim to do everything possible to offset the current barriers to global environmental deals that apply at present.
The results from the household model give insight to the critical determinants of conservation agriculture adoption - and the potential barriers to the poor.
If this does not happen the organisation will over time, become stifled and inflexible with no additional benefit to be gained from these ineffective barriers.
Thus, in a two-dimensional population, barriers to gene flow can be detected through their effect on the spatial pattern of genetic marker alleles.
The effects of such barriers to gene flow are of interest from several points of view.
Frequently, once these technical barriers have been overcome, it is straightforward to establish a theorem for nonsingular actions by generalizing the corresponding measure-preserving result.
Firstly, it was suitable for conceptualising the streamlining of the circulation of desire within cultural production, irrespective of racial or political barriers.
Throughout, what makes it possible to cross these divides, to transcend these barriers, to venture new frontiers is the familiar emotional workhorse : love.
To function properly the new nation would have to increase production, break down trade barriers and become a single market for home-produced goods.
A considerable degree of misunderstanding, cultural pressures, and social barriers were observed with respect to previous contraceptive practice.
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Collocations withbarrier

barrier

These are words often used in combination with barrier.

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administrative barrier
This type of barrier is termed an administrativebarrier.
artificial barrier
Moreover, on both sides of this artificialbarrier, the claims of secularization have been persistently overstated.
barrier beach
However, the barrierbeach with its sand dunes eventually closed this opening permanently.
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