Usually means: Burdened with debts or obligations.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. encumbered: Merriam-Webster
  2. encumbered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. encumbered: Vocabulary.com
  4. Encumbered, encumbered: Wordnik
  5. encumbered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. encumbered: Wiktionary
  7. Encumbered, encumbered: Dictionary.com
  8. encumbered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Encumbered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. encumbered: Rhymezone
  11. Encumbered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. encumbered: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. encumbered: FreeDictionary.org
  14. encumbered: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. encumbered: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. encumbered: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. encumbered: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Encumbered: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. encumbered: Legal dictionary
  7. Encumbered: Financial dictionary
  8. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encumbered: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (encumbered)

▸ adjective:  Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.

Similar:
involved, clogged, mired, burdened, heavy-laden, loaded down, mortgaged, unladen, underloaded, inert, more...

Opposite:
unburdened, unencumbered, free, liberated

Types:
free, unencumbered, mortgaged, indebted, indentured, indentured servant, more...

Phrases:
over encumbered, encumbered and unproductive, more...

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    gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     sepia,     umber, more...



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Similar:
involved, clogged, mired, burdened, heavy-laden, loaded down, mortgaged, unladen, underloaded, inert, more...

Opposite:
unburdened, unencumbered, free, liberated

Types:
free, unencumbered, mortgaged, indebted, indentured, indentured servant, more...

Phrases:
over encumbered, encumbered and unproductive, more...

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     sepia,     umber, more...



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