bar
- noun
- /bɑr/
- Formal
- Some states set a bar to outsourcing at a certain level of cost savings.
- jurisdictional bar
- bar to suits
- bar to citizen suits
Examples
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The new regulations created a serious bar to any further developments in the project.
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Policies dating back to the Roosevelt administration bar hiring bias in publicly funded programs.
Academic text (2011) -
Why is selling this much and reaching this bar important?
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In principle, the bar is deeply committed to equal opportunity and social justice.
Academic text (2017) -
The door slammed, and they heard a heavy wooden bar fall across it from the outside.
Fiction book (1994) -
Many state procurement systems are modeled after the American Bar Association Model Procurement Code.
Academic text (2017) -
The firm double-checks this with the New York Bar and then notifies the California State Bar.
Academic text (1999) -
Her refusal to comply with the rules was seen as a legal bar to the settlement.
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The court stated that there was no bar to appealing the decision made by the lower court.
Synonyms
A rule or action that limits what you can do
An official rule that stops people from doing something
Making something not allowed by law or officials
A rule that limits what people can do
An official rule that bans something or someone, usually by law
An official ban that stops someone from taking part as a punishment
An official order that stops a person or group from doing certain things
An official decision not to accept a claim, for example a tax expense
An official order not to do something
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A Jewish ceremony for a boy on his thirteenth birthday marking his religious responsibilities
- Specialized
A metal bar under a car that reduces how much the car leans in turns
- Specialized
A vertical line on a music staff that shows where one group of beats ends and the next begins
- Specialized
A strong metal bar inside a vehicle that protects people if it flips over
A long strong iron bar with a flat or forked end that you use to force things apart
A horizontal bar fixed at a height for lifting your body until your chin is above it
- Offensive
A system that keeps people of different races apart and often denies rights to Black people
- Specialized
A pair of vertical lines in written music that show the end of a main section or the whole piece
- Specialized
A symbol in programming that returns true when one or both conditions are true
- Archaic
A machine that prints a whole line at once by hitting paper with a moving bar
- Archaic
A diagonal band on a shield in heraldry running from the upper right to the lower left
- Specialized
A unit of pressure measured from complete vacuum and equal to the air pressure at sea level
A table game like pool where short cues hit balls into holes while knocking wooden pegs loses points
- Specialized
A solid metal bar that sits in a horse's mouth to help the rider control the horse
- US
A protective face guard made of metal bars used by the catcher in baseball or softball
- Specialized
A straight rectangular piece of metal that attracts iron and has opposite poles at each end
- Specialized
An arch of bone or flexible tissue at the side of a fish's throat that supports the gills
A single metal pole fixed high between two posts that gymnasts swing and perform moves on
- Specialized
A metal rod in a sewing machine that holds and moves the needle up and down
- US
A long heavy metal tool with a flat chisel end for prying and a curved claw end for pulling nails
- Specialized
A long heavy tool for packing material tightly into a hole or small space
A ski lift with a T-shaped bar that pulls skiers or snowboarders uphill as they hold it
- Specialized
A metal bar under a vehicle that twists to act like a spring and absorb shocks
How Restrictive
- Formal
- Formal
- Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
A bar meaning an obstacle or legal rule comes from the idea of a barrier or 'bar' that prevents action, so a bar to doing something is a reason or rule that stops it.