encumbrance
- n an onerous or difficult concern
- n a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
- n any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- Despite this sort of encumbrance, Jiang says he is confident that the book will find a mainstream Western audience, and believes that foreigners may even "be able to understand the .
- She attributes the gesture to "that good old-fashioned encumbrance of mine, the desire to please.
- He just saw them as superfluous, an encumbrance.