empêchement
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French empeschement. Morphologically, from empêcher (“to impede”) + -ment.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
empêchement m (plural empêchements)
- impediment, hold-up, hitch
- avoir un empêchement ― to hit a snag, to get held up
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “empêchement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.