ROADBLOCK


Meaning of ROADBLOCK in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

set

Police set up roadblocks circling Harare and prevented thousands of people from gathering in the city centre.

Police did nothing to stop them from burning dozens of homes and setting up roadblocks to prevent the Madurese escaping.

Literacy leaders might attempt to set up pedagogic roadblocks both ways on the highway of commercial publication.

Police nationwide will be setting up roadblocks to stop the killers transporting van loads of explosives at will.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Inappropriate clothing can be a roadblock to promotion.

Within an hour of the shootings, police set up ten roadblocks around Las Cruces.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And the people running this particular roadblock were teen-age guerrillas robbing passers-by and stealing cars.

At a roadblock , police opened fire on the peasants, killing 17 of them.

But Louis had posted the roadblock to stop anyone with authority returning to Belpan City.

In large organizations, the number of roadblocks and low points can seem infinite, particularly when something new is being tried.

Near Kaesong and Panmunjom, we passed roadblocks set up by the military.

Police set up roadblocks circling Harare and prevented thousands of people from gathering in the city centre.

Ten yards to go and he heard the driver of the Discovery accelerate away from the roadblock .

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