Usually means: Financial or legal claim burden.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word encumbrance:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. encumbrance: Merriam-Webster
  2. encumbrance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encumbrance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. encumbrance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. encumbrance: Vocabulary.com
  6. encumbrance: Wordnik
  7. encumbrance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. encumbrance: Wiktionary
  9. encumbrance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. encumbrance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. encumbrance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. encumbrance: Dictionary.com
  13. Encumbrance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Encumbrance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. encumbrance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. encumbrance: Rhymezone
  17. Encumbrance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. encumbrance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. encumbrance: FreeDictionary.org
  20. encumbrance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. encumbrance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. encumbrance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. encumbrance: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. encumbrance: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. encumbrance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. encumbrance: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. ENCUMBRANCE: Accounting Glossary
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Encumbrance: bizterms.net
  11. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  12. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  15. Encumbrance: Investopedia
  16. encumbrance: Legal dictionary
  17. encumbrance: Financial dictionary
  18. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  19. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  20. Encumbrance: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encumbrance: Encyclopedia

(Note: See encumbrances as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
noun:  The state or condition of being encumbered.
verb:  (law) To apply an encumbrance to (property, etc.).
noun:  Alternative spelling of incumbrance (“in law: interest attached to a title; dependent”). [(property law) An interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.]

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