transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmbærəsmənt ]
( embarrassments)
1.
Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed.
It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low...
We apologise for any embarrassment this may have caused.
N-VAR : oft N prep
2.
An embarrassment is an action, event, or situation which causes problems for a politician, political party, government, or other public group.
The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president.
N-COUNT : usu with supp
3.
If you refer to a person as an embarrassment , you mean that you disapprove of them but cannot avoid your connection with them.
You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Douglas married you.
N-SING : a N [ disapproval ]