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barrier

[ bar-ee-er ]

noun

  1. anything built or serving to bar passage, as a railing, fence, or the like:

    People may pass through the barrier only when their train is announced.

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  2. any natural bar or obstacle:

    a mountain barrier.

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  3. anything that restrains or obstructs progress, access, etc.:

    a trade barrier.

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  4. a limit or boundary of any kind:

    the barriers of caste.

  5. Physical Geography. an Antarctic ice shelf or ice front.
  6. barriers, History/Historical. the palisade or railing surrounding the ground where tourneys and jousts were carried on.
  7. Archaic. a fortress or stockade.


barrier

/ 藞产忙谤瑟蓹 /

noun

  1. anything serving to obstruct passage or to maintain separation, such as a fence or gate
  2. anything that prevents or obstructs passage, access, or progress

    a barrier of distrust

  3. anything that separates or hinders union

    a language barrier

    1. an exposed offshore sand bar separated from the shore by a lagoon
    2. ( as modifier )

      a barrier beach

  4. sometimes capital that part of the Antarctic icecap extending over the sea
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of barrier1

First recorded in 1275鈥1325; Middle English, from Middle French barriere ( barre bar 1 + -iere, from Latin -腻谤颈补 -ary ); replacing Middle English barrere, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin barrera
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of barrier1

C14: from Old French barriere , from barre bar 1
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Synonym Study

See bar 1.
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He cited the president's fixation on tariffs and "constrictions on free enterprise, price controls, trade barriers and whatnot 鈥 cartelization of the economy, many very bad things."

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He says that raising "bilateral barriers" on commodities mostly just affects "who sells to whom", and not financial gains for the sellers - as the prices are set globally.

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On Thursday, Tanzania's Agriculture Minister Hussein Bashe said trade restrictions from those two countries "directly affected" traders from his country and described the trade barrier as "unfair and harmful".

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Reeves said she had also been working closely with European and Canadian counterparts to remove trade barriers, and that conversations around the table at G20 meetings this week had been difficult:

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鈥淚n March, China bought more soybeans from Brazil in one month than ever in their history. Favorable exchange rates and no tariff barriers led to that procurement behavior,鈥 he said.

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