obstruction (【Noun】a thing that slows or prevents passage or progress ) Meaning, Usage, and Readings

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"obstruction" Meaning

obstruction

/əbˈstrʌkʃn/

Noun

a thing that slows or prevents passage or progress

"obstruction" Example Sentences

An obstruction on the highway is causing major traffic delays.

"obstruction" Related Lesson Material

And he added there is, in his words, “some evidence of obstruction of justice.”

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Okamoto was arrested by the police under Japan’s “obstruction of business” law, which makes it illegal to stop a business from working as it should, and he could go to prison for three years.

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At the Hecht Museum in the city of Haifa, many artifacts are not in glass cases, because the museum likes them to be seen "without obstructions."

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She became instrumental in the nationwide Harmonicas for Health Program through the COPD Foundation (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) in conjunction with the Academy of Country Music and its Lifting Lives charitable division.

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Police are set to move in after a ruling by Hong Kong’s High Court gave authorities permission to tear down street barricades, tents and other obstructions from the protesters’ main camp in the Admiralty district near government headquarters.

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The villagers used farm tools to successfully fight off police, but the police finally arrested seven leaders of the rebellion and charged them not with rebellion, with the lesser crime of obstructing justice, which has a maximum punishment of three years in prison.

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In addition, Robert Mueller, a former director of the FBI, is conducting a criminal probe on whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian operatives during the election season and whether Trump obstructed justice by firing another former FBI chief, James Comey, when he was heading the agency's Russia investigation before Mueller took over.

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obstruction

/əbˈstrʌkʃn/

Noun

the act of stopping something from working or progressing as it should

obstruct

/əbˈstrəkt/

Verb

to prevent or make it difficult for something to happen or continue

blocked

/blɑːkt/

Adjective

having an obstruction that makes movement or flow difficult or impossible