0 something that makes it difficult or impossible for someone or something to move or make progress -- utrudnienie, przeszkoda
Cramped classrooms are an impediment to learning.
1 a problem that makes speaking, hearing, or moving difficult -- wada
a speech impediment
As obstructive undergrowth, the jungle represented an impediment to progress; as an environment for hostile predators it signified the dread characteristics of man's unenlightened state.
Fortunately, many of these impediments disappear in the digital world.
Again midlifestylism pays no heed to bodily deterioration, very old age and the structural impediments to the adoption of appropriate lifestyles and attendant identities.
The fourth element was a survey of the opinions of senior managers and front-line practitioners in the study authorities about impediments to care-home diversions.
The gorse and the scrub are not just seen as an impediment to grazing but welcomed as attributes of the common.
The respect given to a traditional vernacular is often cited as an impediment to contemporary interventions especially in rural environments.
From previous attempts to collect data, it was recognised that reference to long lists of diagnostic codes could be a marked impediment to success.
For while the profession provided a means of entry into the nation's political elite, it also carried an impediment to full membership of the club.
