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burden
In property law, anything that encumbers or restrict the use or value of land, such as an easement, restrictive covenant, or zoning ordinance. The burden indefinitely binds the current and all future owners until it is extinguished, so it is the land, and the landowner, that is burdened by the encumbrance or restriction. See estate.
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  1. In property law, anything that encumbers or restrict the use or value of land, such as an easement, restrictive covenant, or zoning ordinance. The burden indefinitely binds the current and all future owners until it is extinguished, so it is the land, and the landowner, that is burdened by the encumbrance or restriction. See estate.
  2. A duty, obligation, or responsibility.
  3. A responsibility or duty:
hindrance
Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.
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  1. Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.
  2. The act of hindering:
  3. The state or act of hindering something
impediment
A speech defect; stutter, lisp, stammer, etc.
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  1. A speech defect; stutter, lisp, stammer, etc.
  2. A physical defect, especially one that interferes with speech.
  3. Anything preventing the making of a legal contract, esp. of a marriage contract
Find another word for encumbrance. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for encumbrance, like: burden, hindrance, impediment, burden and difficulty.

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  • The general condition of the Italian railways has also affected it, and the increased traffic has not always found the necessary facilities in the way of a proper amount of trucks to receive the goods discharged, leading to considerable encumbrance of the port and consequent diversion of a certain amount of trade elsewhere, and besides this to serious temporary deficiencies in the coal supply of northern Italy.

  • A half-mask is more practical, as you can eat, drink and kiss without encumbrance.

  • A lien is an encumbrance put on a property to secure the payment of a debt.

  • A saucepan is required to have a certain diameter and a certain depth in order that it may hold a certain bulk of liquid: its weight is merely an encumbrance.

  • To decrease these numbers, parents can educate kids on the encumbrance of teen pregnancy, helping to convince them to wait for parenthood by having open discussions about sex and the consequences.

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