encumbrance
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- incumbrance (less common since about 1925)
Etymology edit
From Middle English encombraunce, from Old French encombrance, from encombrer.
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Noun edit
encumbrance (countable and uncountable, plural encumbrances)
- Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
- Some consideration was necessary to decide whether or not to leave his rifle there. On the return, carrying the girl and a pack, it would be added encumbrance […]
- Alternative spelling of incumbrance (“in law: interest attached to a title; dependent”).
- The state or condition of being encumbered.
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burden
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interest, right, burden or liability
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Verb edit
encumbrance (third-person singular simple present encumbrances, present participle encumbrancing, simple past and past participle encumbranced)
- (law) To apply an encumbrance to (property, etc.).
References edit
- “encumbrance”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.