encumbrances
Weights slowing progress
Encumbrances are burdens that restrict free action or movement.
In legal and financial contexts, an encumbrance is a claim against property—a mortgage, lien, or easement that limits the owner's rights: The title search revealed several encumbrances on the property.
More broadly, anything that weighs you down or gets in the way: She shed the encumbrances of her former life.
Claim securing debt
- mortgageSecured home loan
- easementLimited land-use privilege
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- claimStatement of ownership or truth
charge · right-of-way · servitude · attachment · judgment · cloud on title · restriction · zoning
Carried weight or burden
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- strainExcessive stretching force
- onusResponsibility one bears
- yokeCrosspiece binding draft animals
albatross · millstone · hardship · obligation · responsibility · duty · toll · pressure
Borrowed money repaid later
- mortgageSecured home loan
- arrearsOverdue financial obligations
- creditorOne owed money
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
indebtedness · obligation · default · foreclosure · collateral · principal · interest · repayment
Thing that obstructs progress
- obstacleSomething blocking the way
- hindranceBarrier to progress
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- blockageObstruction halting movement
constraint · restriction · limitation · stumbling block · snag · bottleneck · interference · complication
lien
Claim securing debt
claim · charge · right-of-way · servitude · attachment · judgment · cloud on title · restriction · zoning · assessment
load
Carried weight or burden
yoke · albatross · millstone · hardship · obligation · responsibility · duty · toll · pressure · heaviness
loan
Borrowed money repaid later
liability · indebtedness · obligation · default · foreclosure · collateral · principal · interest · repayment · amortization
impediment
Thing that obstructs progress
blockage · constraint · restriction · limitation · stumbling block · snag · bottleneck · interference · complication · inhibition
- real estatehouse, home, apartment, property, sale
- budget reportsoperating budget, capital budget, quarterly report, monthly report, annual report
- public financepublic debt, budget deficit, tax revenue, budgets, expenditure
- property lawfreehold, leasehold, deed, deeds, title
- encumbranceslien, mortgage lien, tax lien, easement, mechanic's lien
- land restrictionsdeed restrictions, easement, easements, covenants, setback
encumbrancesfreedoms
Rights to act unhindered
liberties · unburdening · relief · liberations · releases
encumbrancesassets
Owned items of value
benefits · advantages · resources · endowments · strengths
encumbrancesaids
Supportive tools or resources
helps · advantages · facilitators · enablers · supports