Vocabulary
Hindrance
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a thing that provides resistance, delay, or obstruction to something or someone.
Urdu meaning
رخنہ، رکاوٹ، آڑ، مزاحمت
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Most Pakistani professors are quite comfortable with the present rot; they see ½ritas as a hindrance, not a help.
- Society advances, he wrote, when `its fittest members are allowed to assert their fitness with the least hindrance.` The unfit should `not be prevented from dying out`.
- The political economy remains by far the biggest hindrance in the way of sustainable development.
- The political economy remains by far the biggest hindrance in the way of sustainable development.
- The latest in this regard is a strategy to a 6 have VPN service providers register themselves in the country and agree to the state monitoring their subscribers` activities in exchange for permission to continue operating without hindrance.
Synonyms
impediment, obstacle, barrier, bar, obstruction, handicap, block, check, curb
Curator example
“a hindrance to the development process”
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