obstruction

4 definitions • 3 examples

something that blocks a road, passage, entrance, etc. so that nothing can go along it, or the act of blocking something in this way:

There's some kind of obstruction on the railway tracks.

behaviour or actions that prevent something from happening or working correctly:

They were charged with obstruction of the police/of justice (= preventing the police/law courts from doing their jobs).

in sport an occasion when one player gets in the way of another and so prevents them from moving freely:

The referee said it was obstruction.

law Obstruction of justice is the act of preventing the police or law courts from doing their job.