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impediment | American Dictionary

impediment
noun[ C ]
us/ɪmˈped·ə·mənt/
something that makes progress or movement difficult or impossible:
The lack of funds is a major impediment to research.

Examples of impediment

impediment
They were mutually dedicated to reforming institutions and removing privileges that they regarded as impediments to growth and stability.
The door can be a useful impediment for comic purposes in the sitcom, but it can also impede the movement of the camera.
Naivety is important at an early stage - in life or in an undertaking - but a definite impediment later on.
It becomes difficult to treat the whole person due to this impediment, and it disrupts valuable communication between the patient's two 'halves'.
So long as these impediments to progress remain, the promise of economic growth and technological change in the rural sector will remain unfulfilled.
One type of obstacles to navigation consisted of those impediments created by humans.
This effect is heightened by the increasing importance of trade impediments, which have a much higher information complexity than the tariff, such as sanitary standards.
For while the profession provided a means of entry into the nation's political elite, it also carried an impediment to full membership of the club.
From previous attempts to collect data, it was recognised that reference to long lists of diagnostic codes could be a marked impediment to success.
The respect given to a traditional vernacular is often cited as an impediment to contemporary interventions especially in rural environments.
The gorse and the scrub are not just seen as an impediment to grazing but welcomed as attributes of the common.
The fourth element was a survey of the opinions of senior managers and front-line practitioners in the study authorities about impediments to care-home diversions.
Again midlifestylism pays no heed to bodily deterioration, very old age and the structural impediments to the adoption of appropriate lifestyles and attendant identities.
Fortunately, many of these impediments disappear in the digital world.
As obstructive undergrowth, the jungle represented an impediment to progress; as an environment for hostile predators it signified the dread characteristics of man's unenlightened state.
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Collocations withimpediment

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These are words often used in combination with impediment.

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legal impediment
The ilmuhaber is never fully transcribed, but the record invariably tells us that it guaranteed that the bride had no legalimpediment to matrimony.
main impediment to
The main impediment to emigration since the war has been at the other end—lack of housing—something over which we have no control.
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