roadblock

From road +‎ block.

roadblock (plural roadblocks)

1. Something that blocks or obstructs a road.
2. (figurative) An obstacle or impediment.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hindrance

   to hit roadblocks

   • 2015 September 16, Andy Marra, “Many trans people still are denied healthcare because of their identity”, in The Guardian‎:

     Transgender people face roadblocks in accessing healthcare, and it’s not going away even after archaic rules denying healthcare access to transgender people are lifted and more of us become insured.

   • 2021 September 3, Anneken Tappe, “The August jobs numbers have economists worried. Here’s why”, in CNN‎:

     America’s jobs recovery hit a major roadblock in August as the Delta variant threatened the labor market recovery, and the US economy added far fewer jobs than expected.

   • 2023 March 15, Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, Karen Weise, “How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Over the past decade, the products hit roadblocks. Siri ran into technological hurdles, including clunky code that took weeks to update with basic features, said John Burkey, a former Apple engineer who worked on the assistant.

roadblock (third-person singular simple present roadblocks, present participle roadblocking, simple past and past participle roadblocked)

1. (colloquial, transitive) To prevent, hinder.

• See also Thesaurus:hinder