Encumbrance

Definitions: Encumbrance

Encumbrance

Noun

1. An onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind".

2. A charge against property (as a lien or mortgage).

3. Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "encumbrance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Finance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Encumbrance

Hindrance

Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora.

Crosswords: Encumbrance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This he assured me was the only encumbrance.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Djibouti

Corruption in Djibouti is not as bad as in many developing nations but it remains a constant encumbrance. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "encumbrance": without encumbrance. Additional references.

Albanian

person në ngarkim (dependant, dependent), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, liability, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse, trip up), barrë (burden, cart load, fardel, haul, jag, load, onus, pannier, pregnancy, tax). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عائق (balk, bar, barrier, clog, deterrent, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, embarrassment, fencing, hamper, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, interference, jam, liability, morass, obstruction, obstructive, restraint, setback, shackle, stick, stumbling block, stymie, tie, trammel, traverse), ‏عبء (burden, charge, load, onus), ‏رهن (bond, forfeit, gage, hock, mortgage, mortgaging, pawn, pledge). (various references)

Bulgarian 

товар (bulk, burden, burthen, charge, fardel, freight, freightage, goods, imposition, lading, load, loading, tax, tie, tote, weight), затруднение (ado, cumber, difficulty, drawback, embarrassment, hang up, hard sledding, hardship, hitch, involvement, jackpot, perplexity, pinch, predicament, pressure, quandary, rub, scrape, spot, tickler, tight corner, tight squeeze, trouble), бреме (burden, burthen, charge, deadweight, drag, drain, exaction, fardel, freight, incubus, load, onus, tax, tie, weight), пречка (bit, block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, embarrassment, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, remora, rub, setback, spoke, stay, stop, stumbling-stone, traverse). (various references)

Czech

břemeno (burden, Comber, drain, onus, pack, weight). (various references)

Dutch

erfdienstbaarheid (easement, praedial encumbrance, servitude), reeel servituut (praedial encumbrance). (various references)

Farsi 

مانع (Balk, Bar, Barricade, Brake, Crimp, Dike, Drawback, Embargo, Handicap, Hedge, Hinder, Hindrance, Hitch, Hurdle, Impediment, Let, Lock, Obstacle, Preventive, Repellent, Setback, Shackle, Snag, Stay), قید (Adverb, Assurance, Bind, Bridle, Clog, Constraint, Hamper, Manacle, Proviso, Qualification, Reservation, Rocker, Shackle, Tie), گرفتاری (Ado, Assurance, Captivity, Constraint, Hitch, Involvement, Mire, Plight, Scrape, Snarl), گرو (Deposit, Hostage, Pawn, Pledge, Security, Stake, Surety), اسباب زحمت (Inconvenience), بار (Audience, Brunt, Burden, Cargo, Entrance, Freight, Onus). (various references)

Finnish

rasitus (action, charge, exertion, strain, stress), rasite (easement, servitude, way leave). (various references)

French

handicap, grevant une propriété, fardeau. (various references)

German

belastung (burden, burdening, charge, detriment, electric load, incrimination, liabilities, load, load capacity, loading, pressure, putting weight on, strain, stress, tax, tie, trial, weight, work stress), Verschuldung (blame, indebtedness). (various references)

Greek 

βάροσ (burden, heft, onus, overweight, weight), εμπόδιο (barrier, block, blocking, buffer, fastener, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hobbles, hurdle, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, obtrusion, stumbling block, trammel, trig), επιβάρυνση (charge, concentration, expenditure, expenses, loading, outgoings, surcharge). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעמס�" (burden, tax, weight), קושי (difficulty, hardness, obstinacy, toughness), � טל (ballast, brunt, burden, load, weight). (various references)

Hungarian

jelzálog (hypothec, mortgage), teher (ballast, burden, burthen, cargo, charge, drag, fardel, freight, imposition, lading, liabilities, liability, load, loading, mortgage, onus, passive debts), szolgalom (easement, right of way, servitude), megterhelés (burden, charging, handicap, imposition, loading, strain), kerékkötő (drag, skid), hátráltatás (retardation, setback). (various references)

Italian

ingombro (obstruction, size), impedimento (check, clog, determent, drag, escapement, handicap, hindrance, hitch, holdback, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, preventative, prevention, stumbling block). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

重荷 (heavy burden, heavy freight, heavy responsibility, load), 荷厄介 , 絆 (bonds, fetters), 厄介物 (nuisance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもに (heavy burden, heavy freight, heavy responsibility, load, mainly, primarily), きずな (bonds, fetters), にやっかい, やっかいもの (burden, dependent, hanger-on, nuisance, parasite), じゅうか (arms rack, den, dwelling, gunfire, heavy burden, heavy freight, heavy punishment, heavy responsibility, house, load, residence, rifle stand, serious crime). (various references)

Manx

cumrail (delay, detain, deter, encumber, hindrance, lag, loiter, obstruction, prevent). (various references)

Norwegian

hindring (hindrance, hitch), heftelse. (various references)

Pig Latin

encumbranceay

Portuguese

estorvo (abashment, check, cloggyness, deterrent, embarrassment, hamper, liability, nuisance, obstacle, obstruction, perplexity, preventions, trammels, withholdment), embaraço (abashment, awkwardness, catch, cloggyness, complication, constrained, corner, difficulty, embarrassment, fix, hobble, hole, impel, mat, mess, mind-breaker, nonplus, obstacle, perplexity, pinch, quandary, rub, trouble), sobrecarregar (burden, flood, freight, overburden, overcharge, overcrowd, overleaf, overload capacity, overweight, overwhelm, saddle, supercharge, tax, weight), sobrecarga (glut, glutting, overburden, overcharge, overfreight, overload, overloading, overrun, overweight, supercargo, surcharge), dificuldade (ado, awkwardness, check, checkout, complicacy, cramp, crux, deterrent, difficulty, distress, embassy, fix, handicap, hardness, hardship, hindrance, hitch, hobble, holdback, impediment, intricacy, knot, let, matter, mess, need, niche, Nodus, obstacle, obstruction, plummet, quagmire, Ravel, rub, scrape, stress, trammels, trouble). (various references)

Romanian

povarã (burden, load, plummet, torture, weight), piedicã (balk, bar, brake, check, clog, cumber, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, fetter, hindrance, hitch, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, pull back, sear, set back, sprag, stay, stop, stopper, stopple, stumbling-bloc, trammel, traverse, trigger), obstacol (bar, barrier, check, clog, cumber, delay, dike, drag, drawback, entanglement, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hold back, hurdle, impediment, interference, jog, leap, marplot, object, obstacle, obstruction, rub, snag, stay), greutate (arduousness, authority, avoirdupois, bother, burden, charge, cumber, difficulty, embarrassment, hardness, hardship, heaviness, heft, load, poise, ponderosity, shot, trouble, weight), încurcãturã (abashment, confusion, difficulty, entanglement, fix, hash, involution, involvement, loss, lost, mess, mire, mishmash, morass, perplexity, pretty kettle of fish, puzzle, scrape, stew, tangle, trouble, upset). (various references)

Russian 

закладная (bill of sale, hypothec, mortgage), бремя (burden, deadweight, drag, load, millstone, onus), препятствие (balk, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, discouragement, disincentive, drawback, hedge, holdback, hurdle, impediment, leap, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pull back, setback, traverse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

teret (ballast, burden, cargo, drag, freight, heft, imposition, load, onus, tax, weight), smetnja (cumber, disturbance, drawback, handicap, hindrance, impediment, jam up, nuisance, perturbation, set back, setback). (various references)

Spanish

gravamen (assessment, burden, charge, charged, strain, taxation), estorbo (check, discouragement, drag, embarrassment, handicap, hindrance, hold back, impediment, nuisance, obstacle, obstruction, tie, trouble). (various references)

Swedish

inteckning (mortgage), hypotek (mortgage, security), hinder (balk, bar, block, check, cumber, curb, disqualification, drag, embargo, embarrassment, entanglement, fence, gorge, hazard, hedge, hindrance, hitch, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, object, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, stymie, trammel), gravation (mortgage), black om foten, besvär (ado, annoyance, appeal, embarrassment, inconvenience, inconveniences, labor, labour, pains, painstaking, struggle, trouble), belastning (affliction, cargo, charge, dead weight, debit, demand, imposition, liability, load, loading, strain, stress, tax, weight, workload). (various references)

Turkish

engel (balk, bar, barrage, barricade, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, countercheck, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, dam, determent, difficulty, discouragement, disincentive, drag, drawback, entanglement, fence, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hobble, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, retardation, rub, shackles, slashing, snag, stay, stick, stop, stumbling block, supersedeas, tie, trammel), yükümlülük (charge, compulsion, duty, engagement, function, impost, incumbency, liability, obligation, onus, ought, responsibility), yük (bulk, burden, cargo, charge, fardel, freight, goods, haul, impedimenta, imposition, impost, incident, lading, load, loading, onus, pile, plummet, shipload, shipment, stowage, strain, sumpter, tax, weight), sorumluluk (accountability, baby, blame, buck, burden, charge, control, custody, engagement, liability, load, office, onus, pidgin, place, responsibility, trust), sorumlu olunan kişi, ipotek (charge, hypothec, lien, mortgage, real charge, security), borç (accommodation, arrear, arrears, care, debit, debt, liability, loan, obligation, red). (various references)

Ukranian 

утриманець (dependant, dependent), тягар (baggage, burden, clog, freight, load, onus, tax, weight), перешкода (back-set, baffle, balk, bar, barricade, barrier, block, bridle, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, cramp, cumber, dike, disability, discouragement, drawback, dyke, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hold back, interference, leap, marplot, nuisance, obex, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, occlusor, preclusion, pullback, stop, trammels, traverse, wall). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự cản trở (baffle, check, countercherk, delay, hardihood, holdback, incumbrance, let), gánh nặng sự phiền toái (incumbrance), điều trở ngại (clog, drag-chain, drawback, incumbrance), điều phiền toái sự trở ngại (incumbrance), điều cản trở (difficulty, traverse). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "encumbrance": encumbrancer, encumbrancers, encumbrances. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Encumbrance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecumbrance, emcumbrance, encombrance, encubrance, encumbarance, encumberance, encumbrancer, encumbrence. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: buccaneer.

-3 letters: encumber.

-4 letters: cerumen, embrace, menacer, unbrace.

-5 letters: accrue, acumen, ambeer, amerce, banner, barmen, became, bemean, bename, cabmen, caecum, camber, cancer, canner, careen, carmen, crambe, cumber, cunner, embrue, manner, manure, meaner, menace, nuance, number, raceme, recane, rename, rubace, umbrae, unbear, urbane.

+1 letter: encumbrancer, encumbrances.

+2 letters: encumbrancers.

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