0 something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult or impossible:
In a number of developing countries, war has been an additional impediment to progress.
1 something that makes progress or movement difficult or impossible:
They were mutually dedicated to reforming institutions and removing privileges that they regarded as impediments to growth and stability.
The door can be a useful impediment for comic purposes in the sitcom, but it can also impede the movement of the camera.
Naivety is important at an early stage - in life or in an undertaking - but a definite impediment later on.
It becomes difficult to treat the whole person due to this impediment, and it disrupts valuable communication between the patient's two 'halves'.
So long as these impediments to progress remain, the promise of economic growth and technological change in the rural sector will remain unfulfilled.
One type of obstacles to navigation consisted of those impediments created by humans.
This effect is heightened by the increasing importance of trade impediments, which have a much higher information complexity than the tariff, such as sanitary standards.
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.
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