roadblock

English

Etymology

road +‎ block

Noun

roadblock (plural roadblocks)

Something that blocks or obstructs a road.
An obstacle or impediment.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hindrance
- 2015 September 16, Andy Marra, “Many trans people still are denied healthcare because of their identity”, in The Guardian‎:
  Transgender people face roadblocks in accessing healthcare, and it’s not going away even after archaic rules denying healthcare access to transgender people are lifted and more of us become insured.

Translations

Something that blocks or obstructs a road

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 路障 (zh) (lùzhàng)
Czech: silniční zátaras m
Dutch: wegversperring (nl) f, wegblokkade (nl) f
Esperanto: baraĵo, barilo (eo)
Finnish: tiesulku (fi), este (fi)
French: barrage routier m
German: Absperrung (de) f, Straßensperre (de) f
Hebrew: מחסום‎ (he) m (makhsóm)
Italian: blocco stradale m
Japanese: 道路封鎖 (どうろふうさ, dōro fūsa)
Malay: sekatan jalan raya (ms)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: veisperring (no) m or f, vegsperring m or f
Nynorsk: vegsperring f
Polish: blokada (pl) f
Romanian: blocaj (ro) n
Russian: блокпо́ст (ru) m (blokpóst), (доро́жное) загражде́ние (ru) n (zagraždénije)
Spanish: barrera vial f
Swedish: vägspärr c
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

An obstacle or impediment

Dutch: versperring (nl) f, obstakel (nl) n, tegenwerkende factor m
Finnish: este (fi), hidaste (fi)
German: Hindernis (de) n
Malay: sekatan (ms), halangan (ms)
Russian: препя́тствие (ru) n (prepjátstvije), поме́ха (ru) f (poméxa), препо́на (ru) f (prepóna)
Spanish: barrera (es) f

Verb

roadblock (third-person singular simple present roadblocks, present participle roadblocking, simple past and past participle roadblocked)

(colloquial, transitive) To prevent, hinder.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:hinder

Translations

to prevent, hinder

Finnish: estää (fi)