Usually means: Restrictions preventing access or movement.
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  1. blockades: Merriam-Webster
  2. blockades: Collins English Dictionary
  3. blockades: Vocabulary.com
  4. Blockades, blockades: Wordnik
  5. blockades: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. blockades: Wiktionary
  7. blockades: Dictionary.com
  8. blockades: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Blockades: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. blockades: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. blockades: Legal dictionary

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  1. blockades: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. blockades: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. blockades: Medical dictionary

(Note: See blockade as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (blockade)

noun:  The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
noun:  (by extension) Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
noun:  (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
noun:  (biology, medicine) Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
noun:  (chess) The act of preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
noun:  (backgammon) Synonym of prime
verb:  (transitive) To create a blockade against.
▸ Also see blockade


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