barring

About 1.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Bars; an arrangement or pattern of stripes or bars.
2. noun The act of fitting or closing something with bars.
3. noun The exclusion of someone; blackballing.
4. noun Timber used for supporting the roof or sides of shafts.
5. noun The sewing of a decorative bar or tack upon a fabric or leather.
6. preposition Unless (something) happens; excepting; in the absence of.

   Barring any further red tape, we will finally be able to open the restaurant.

7. verb present participle and gerund of bar
8. verb present participle and gerund of barr

Similar words

blackball restraining prevention subject prohibition banning withholding forbidding except deleting

Often followed by

the a of any some an his that accidents all