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roadblock|ˈrəʊdblɒk|
Also road block, road-block.
[f. road n. 4 + block n. 19 a.]
a. A barrier or obstruction on a road, usu. one set up by the army or police.
1940Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 7 Aug.–1 Oct. 4 Demonstrations of how to build road-blocks, how to deal with tanks,..how to deal with refugees on the road, are all part of the Home Guard training. 1943Ann. Reg. 1942 63 The road blocks for obstructing tanks were also found to be much more formidable than had been anticipated. 1954X. Fielding Hide & Seek v. 67 Pedestrians..were often searched by the sentries manning the road-blocks. 1958‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock xii. 167 When you put up your road blocks, then I have to take the diversion. 1971Daily Tel. 23 July 1/5 A soldier fired at a car which broke through a roadblock, hitting the back window. 1977Centuryan (Office Cleaning Services) Christmas 15/4 They had not gone far before they came to a roadblock caused by an accident. 1978N.Y. Times 30 Mar. a5/2 The complex is now guarded by 14,000 riot policemen who man roadblocks and monitor highway traffic from camouflaged roadside positions.
b. fig.
1945Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 19 June 4/5 The French general is probably the only remaining road-block to Communism in France. 1952Sun (Baltimore) 29 Feb. 19/3 This bill has been subjected to roadblock after roadblock by those attempting to delay its passage during these closing days of 1952 General Assembly session. 1957Economist 7 Sept. 770/1 In every direction the logic of the Korean economy runs headlong into a political roadblock. 1963J. Mitford Amer. Way of Death v. 177 An English contributor to the American Professional Embalmer describes some of the roadblocks he has encountered. 1977Miller & Swift Words & Women v. 71 Nowhere are the semantic roadblocks to sexual equality more apparent—or significant—than in the language of the dominant organized religions.
Hence as v. trans.
1954in Webster Add. 1955Newsweek 10 Jan. 20/1 The debate that followed roadblocked Mr. Eisenhower's legislative program for weeks. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics X. 153 The analysis of texts, opening the way to ethnographic and historical studies that otherwise would still be roadblocked. 1972Listener 10 Feb. 167/2 The Army road-blocked Newry. |