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English
Verb
get in the way (third-person singular simple present gets in the way, present participle getting in the way, simple past got in the way, past participle (UK) got in the way or (US) gotten in the way)
- (intransitive) to obstruct, hinder, or interfere
2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:Ideology constantly gets in the way. For the Government, unions are militant "Trots" out to cause political trouble. For the unions, the private sector is a grasping, evil leech. Neither is true.
Translations
to obstruct, hinder, or interfere
- Armenian: խանգարել (hy) (xangarel)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 妨礙／妨碍 (zh) (fáng'ài), 阻礙／阻碍 (zh) (zǔ'ài), 阻礙／阻碍 (zh) (zǔ'ài)
- German: stören (de), dazwischenkommen (de), hindern (de), behindern (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἐπιπροσθέω (epiprosthéō)
- Japanese: 妨げる (ja) (さまたげる, samatageru), 邪魔になる (jama-ni naru)
- Latin: impedio
- Polish: stać na drodze impf, stawać na drodze impf, stanąć na drodze pf, stać na przeszkodzie impf, stanąć na przeszkodzie pf, stać na zawadzie impf, stanąć na zawadzie pf, wchodzić w paradę (pl) impf, wejść w paradę pf
- Portuguese: atrapalhar (pt)
- Russian: меша́ть (ru) impf (mešátʹ), помеша́ть (ru) pf (pomešátʹ), препя́тствовать (ru) impf (prepjátstvovatʹ), воспрепя́тствовать (ru) pf (vosprepjátstvovatʹ)
- Spanish: interponerse (es), obstruir (es), estorbar (es), interferir (es)
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