Definitions
a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
Word origin
From road + block.
Used in a sentence
“to hit roadblocks”
“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.”
“America’s jobs recovery hit a major roadblock in August as the Delta variant threatened the labor market recovery, and the US economy added far fewer jobs than expected.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Traffic barrier”9 letters
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