English-Thai Dictionary

encumbrance

N ผู้ ที่ ต้อง พิ่ง พา คนอื่น โดยเฉพาะ เด็ก  phu-ti-tong-ping-pa-kon-uen-doi-cha-phow-dek

 

encumbrance

N สิ่งกีดขวาง  สิ่ง ที่ เป็น ภาระ  burden hindrance impediment sing-kid-kwang

 

encumbrancer

N ผู้เรียกร้อง สิทธิ์ ใน ทรัพย์สิน 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ENCUMBRANCE

n.A load; any thing that impedes motion, or renders it difficult and laborious; clog; impediment. 1. Useless addition or load.
Strip from the branching Alps their piny load,
The huge encumbrance of horrific wood.
2. Load or burden on an estate; a legal claim on an estate, for the discharge of which the estate is liable.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ENCUMBRANCE

En *cum "brance, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. encombrance. Cf. Incumbrance. ]

 

1. That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.

 

2. (Law )

 

Defn: Same as Incumbrance.

 

Syn. -- Burden; clog; impediment; check; hindrance.

 

ENCUMBRANCER

ENCUMBRANCER En *cum "bran *cer, n. (Law )

 

Defn: Same as Incumbrancer.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

encumbrance

en cum brance |enˈkəmbrəns ɪnˈkəmb (ə )rəns | ▶noun a burden or impediment. • Law a mortgage or other charge on property or assets. • archaic a person, esp. a child, who is dependent on someone else for support. ORIGIN Middle English (denoting an encumbered state; formerly also as incumbrance ): from Old French encombrance, from encombrer ‘block up ’ (see encumber ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

encumbrance

en |cum ¦brance |ɪnˈkʌmbr (ə )ns, ɛn- | ▶noun an impediment or burden. • Law a mortgage or other claim on property or assets. • archaic a person, especially a child, who is dependent on someone else for support. ORIGIN Middle English (denoting an encumbered state; formerly also as incumbrance ): from Old French encombrance, from encombrer ‘block up ’ (see encumber ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

encumbrance

encumbrance noun 1 he soon found the old equipment a great encumbrance: hindrance, obstruction, obstacle, impediment, constraint, handicap, inconvenience, nuisance, disadvantage, drawback; literary trammel; archaic cumber. 2 she knew she was an encumbrance to him: burden, responsibility, obligation, liability, weight, load, stress, strain, pressure, trouble, worry; millstone, albatross, cross to bear; informal ball and chain.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

encumbrance

encumbrance noun 1 he found the equipment a great encumbrance: hindrance, obstruction, obstacle, impediment, restraint, constraint, handicap, inconvenience, nuisance, disadvantage, drawback; archaic cumber. ANTONYMS help; asset. 2 I am twenty-nine and without encumbrances of any kind: responsibility, obligation, liability; imposition, burden, weight, load, tax, stress, strain, pressure, trouble, worry; millstone, albatross, cross to bear; literary trammel; archaic cumber.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

encumbrance

en cum brance /ɪnkʌ́mbr (ə )ns /名詞 C じゃまになる物 [人 ].