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say it: ROHD-blahk
roadblock is a noun meaning "any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective". It is pronounced /ˈɹoʊdˌblɑk/ — ROHD-blahk. It carries 2 recorded senses.
any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
“intolerance is a barrier to understanding”
a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for roadblock come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.