[
UK
/ɛnkˈʌmbɹəns/
]
NOUN
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an onerous or difficult concern
the burden of responsibility
that's a load off my mind - a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
How To Use encumbrance In A Sentence
- At the top of the list is the simple proposition that by adding a reference to the first mortgage as a prior encumbrance the lease was encumbered.
- When you're walking 30 miles a day, the fewer encumbrances the better.
- The said premises is to be sold to the Purchaser or its nominee(s), sub-purchaser(s) free from encumbrances .
- I just shy away from hats, and gloves are encumbrances.
- Freed from inhibitions and encumbrances, they can choose their lives, do what they will.
- As governments attempt to avail themselves of the huge amounts of funds required for military armament, social welfare and social balance are seen as an unnecessary encumbrance.
- When you're walking 30 miles a day, the fewer encumbrances the better.
- Only by overcoming our weaknesses can we advance without any encumbrance; only by uniting ourselves in our struggle can we be invincible.
- Also, as the flatmate in question is Italian, my pig-ignorant English-speaker status was not an undue encumbrance as his friends were used to speaking to him in English.
- Many encumbrances that our bodies endure, including detrimental ones like viruses, have an unwelcome and deeply altering effect on our already flimsy corporal authority.
