"roadblock" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: roadblocks [plural]
Etymology: From road + block. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|road|block}} road + block Head templates: {{en-noun}} roadblock (plural roadblocks)
  1. Something that blocks or obstructs a road. Translations (Something that blocks or obstructs a road): حَاجِز (ḥājiz) [masculine] (Arabic), حاجز (ḥājez) [South-Levantine-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), 路障 (lùzhàng) (Chinese Mandarin), silniční zátaras [masculine] (Czech), wegversperring [feminine] (Dutch), wegblokkade [feminine] (Dutch), baraĵo (Esperanto), barilo (Esperanto), tiesulku (Finnish), este (Finnish), barrage routier [masculine] (French), Absperrung [feminine] (German), Straßensperre [feminine] (German), מחסום (makhsóm) [masculine] (Hebrew), pembatas jalan (Indonesian), sekatan jalan raya (Indonesian), blocco stradale [masculine] (Italian), 道路封鎖 (dōro fūsa) (alt: どうろふうさ) (Japanese), sekatan jalan raya (Malay), veisperring [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), vegsperring [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), vegsperring [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), blokada [feminine] (Polish), blocaj [neuter] (Romanian), блокпо́ст (blokpóst) [masculine] (Russian), загражде́ние (zagraždénije) (alt: доро́жное) [neuter] (Russian), barrera vial [feminine] (Spanish), vägspärr [common-gender] (Swedish), rào chắn (Vietnamese)
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  2. (figurative) An obstacle or impediment. Tags: figuratively Synonyms: hindrance Translations (An obstacle or impediment): versperring [feminine] (Dutch), obstakel [neuter] (Dutch), tegenwerkende factor [masculine] (Dutch), este (Finnish), hidaste (Finnish), Hindernis [neuter] (German), rintangan (Indonesian), halangan (Indonesian), sekatan (Malay), halangan (Malay), препя́тствие (prepjátstvije) [neuter] (Russian), поме́ха (poméxa) [feminine] (Russian), препо́на (prepóna) [feminine] (Russian), barrera [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-roadblock-en-noun-41jQIS~2 Categories (other): English terms with collocations Disambiguation of 'An obstacle or impediment': 0 100

Verb

Forms: roadblocks [present, singular, third-person], roadblocking [participle, present], roadblocked [participle, past], roadblocked [past]
Etymology: From road + block. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|road|block}} road + block Head templates: {{en-verb}} roadblock (third-person singular simple present roadblocks, present participle roadblocking, simple past and past participle roadblocked)
  1. (colloquial, transitive) To prevent, hinder. Tags: colloquial, transitive Translations (to prevent, hinder): estää (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-roadblock-en-verb-09BaDFRx

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2015 September 16, Andy Marra, “Many trans people still are denied healthcare because of their identity”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Transgender people face roadblocks in accessing healthcare, and it’s not going away even after archaic rules denying healthcare access to transgender people are lifted and more of us become insured.",
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          "ref": "2023 March 15, Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, Karen Weise, “How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Over the past decade, the products hit roadblocks. Siri ran into technological hurdles, including clunky code that took weeks to update with basic features, said John Burkey, a former Apple engineer who worked on the assistant.",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lùzhàng",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "word": "路障"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "silniční zátaras"
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      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "wegversperring"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "word": "baraĵo"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "word": "barilo"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "word": "tiesulku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "word": "este"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barrage routier"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Absperrung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Straßensperre"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "makhsóm",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מחסום"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "blocco stradale"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "word": "pembatas jalan"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "word": "sekatan jalan raya"
    },
    {
      "alt": "どうろふうさ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dōro fūsa",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "word": "道路封鎖"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "word": "sekatan jalan raya"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "veisperring"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
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      "word": "vegsperring"
    },
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "blokada"
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      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
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      "word": "blocaj"
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      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "блокпо́ст"
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      "roman": "zagraždénije",
      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "загражде́ние"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "barrera vial"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vägspärr"
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      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "Something that blocks or obstructs a road",
      "word": "rào chắn"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "versperring"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "obstakel"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tegenwerkende factor"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "word": "este"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "word": "hidaste"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Hindernis"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "word": "rintangan"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "word": "halangan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "word": "sekatan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "word": "halangan"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prepjátstvije",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "препя́тствие"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "poméxa",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "поме́ха"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "prepóna",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "препо́на"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "An obstacle or impediment",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "barrera"
    }
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  "word": "roadblock"
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        "To prevent, hinder."
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to prevent, hinder",
      "word": "estää"
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