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impediments

[im-ped-uh-muhnt]

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noun

obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.

any physical defect that impedes normal or easy speech; a speech disorder.

Chiefly Ecclesiastical Law. a bar, usually of blood or affinity, to marriage: a diriment impediment.

Usually, impediments. impedimenta.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin impedīmentum. See impede, -ment

Related forms

im·ped·i·men·tal

[im-ped-uh-men-tl] , im·ped·i·men·ta·ry, adjective

non·im·ped·i·men·tal, adjective

non·im·ped·i·men·ta·ry, adjective

Synonyms
1. bar, encumbrance, check. See obstacle.

Antonyms
1. help, encouragement.

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In it he argued against political and legal impediments to the free international flow of people, goods, capital and ideas.

They arranged for study-abroad staff members to meet with professors to identify the impediments.

These impediments to growth are being removed but a fresh cause for concern is the strengthening yen.

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In it he argued against political and legal impediments to the free international flow of people, goods, capital and ideas.

They arranged for study-abroad staff members to meet with professors to identify the impediments.

These impediments to growth are being removed but a fresh cause for concern is the strengthening yen.

But this year the stakes seem higher somehow, even as the impediments appear steeper.

Our over dependence on mathematics and frequent unphysical manipulations are the main impediments in the progress of science.

Your character can then jump over or slide under these impediments.

Both impediments need to change if special education is to have any chance at improvement.

Professors are often trained to regard students as impediments to research.

Besides the cost, though, there are other impediments.

Rather than being a resource for the state, the people are impediments.

California's environmental laws posed no serious impediments to energy production, and there was no shortage of natural gas.

The impediments to persistence and success have less to do with a failure to challenge students or an excessive cosseting of them.

On economic grounds, unless surviving trade impediments are broken down, it makes for pretty lousy policy.

Usaid officials said they never expected so many impediments.

It is one of the major impediments to progress in many departments.

The romantic in every reader yearns for a new order to sweep aside the impediments of the old.

The political list of impediments to a control of costs are many.

But the banksters own the governments so expect lots of impediments to this happening soon.

The unifying theme was that spending and investment would surge as these temporary impediments subsided.

We could start by removing the government-created impediments to downward socioeconomic mobility.

Yet this ownership structure is now one of the biggest impediments to change.

Innumerable bureaucratic and legal impediments are also putting them off.

There are other impediments to the army's improving counter-insurgency skills.

This, by the way, is not an apology for its many warts and impediments to growth.

America needs to save and invest more, promote free trade and loosen regulatory impediments to job creation.

But the impediments are various and numerous to be overcome with the help of existing technologies only.

High heels and skirts are no impediments to moving corpses in and out of her funeral parlor.

There are all kinds of structural impediments that even a modest amount of government intervention could remove.

They are traded in vast highly liquid markets with few impediments to information.

Barriers to developing countries' trade are impediments to investment, growth, jobs and poverty reduction.

Some union representatives say the private lawyers who represent school boards can be impediments to reaching quick settlements.

Scholars can't download the entire corpus right now, but the impediments are legal and commercial rather than technological.

Bellos's arguments regarding the impediments to literary machine translation.

Since there are no legal or logistical impediments to crafting a rational.

Chwasky would not discuss the impediments to getting the deal done.

Cultural impediments to them are not as serious as political ones.

There are signs that those impediments are lifting.

Among the impediments are well-founded reservations as to how any new discovery can be turned into product.

Lowering these impediments would make directors more focused on shareholder interests.

Andor said, adding that in some cases the impediments were political as well as technical.

The difference now is tat there are borders, nation states and lots of legal impediments or hoops to jump through.

Money, technology and copyright complications are huge impediments.

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Word Origin & History

impediment

late 14c., from L. impedimentem "hindrance," from impedire "impede," lit. "to shackle the feet," from in- "in" + pes (gen. pedis) "foot."

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Medical Dictionary

impediment im·ped·i·ment (ĭm-pěd'ə-mənt)
n.

Something that impedes; a hindrance or an obstruction.
An organic defect preventing clear articulation of speech.

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"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

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