encumbrance
verbEtymology From Middle English encombraunce, from Old French encombrance, from encombrer.
1
Law To apply an encumbrance to (property, etc.).
encumbrance
noun/ɪnˈkʌm.bɹəns/ · /ɛn-/
Etymology From Middle English encombraunce, from Old French encombrance, from encombrer.
1
Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
- 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[…]1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
2
Alternative Alternative spelling of incumbrance (“in law: interest attached to a title; dependent”).
3
The state or condition of being encumbered.
- Synonyms
- encumberment
- Antonyms
- unencumbrance
- Derived terms
- disencumbrance, encumbrancer, overencumbrance