Wat (wie) is Encumber - definitie
encumber
[?n'k?mb?, ?n-]
¦ verb impede or burden.
Origin
ME: from OFr. encombrer 'block up', from en- 'in' + combre 'river barrage'.
encumber
v. (D; tr.) to encumber with
encumber
(encumbers, encumbering, encumbered)
If you are encumbered by something, it prevents you from moving freely or doing what you want.
Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore...
It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s.
= burden
VERB: V n, be V-ed with n
• encumbered
The rest of the world is less encumbered with legislation...
ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ with/by n
Uitspraakvoorbeelden voor Encumber
1. and encumber the balance sheet and that.
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Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor Encumber
1. Potter said the campaign did not encumber the public funds in any way.
2. McCain‘s lawyer, former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter, has said McCain did not encumber any money that he would have received from the federal treasury.
3. The sea and weather conditions were unstable: large waves on the one hand and weak winds alternating with quick gusts that encumber steering on the other.
4. As a result, the expansion of the railroad in 12 to 15 years will encumber the state with an estimated NIS 480 million to NIS 600 million reimbursement to the concessionaires.
5. "There‘s also a good perspective in defense and military." For Indonesia, the country‘s defense minister said, the deal comes with none of the strings that encumber similar purchases from the United States and Western Europe.