the.com/blocker
The person whose entire job is standing where you want to go.
means Someone or something that stops progress toward a goal — a person, obstacle, or issue holding up work until it's cleared.
from Straightforward agent-noun formation: 'block' (from Old French 'bloc,' a large chunk of wood, itself from a Germanic root related to English 'block') plus the '-er' suffix that turns a verb into 'the one who does it.' The physical sense — a solid obstruction, something you literally run into — slid naturally into sports and warfare (a blocker who stops an opponent), then into offices and software, where it now means anyone or anything standing between you and 'done.'
- origin
- Sports term before it ate corporate vocabulary
- synonym for
- the step everyone blames in standups
- irony
- often a person, politely called a process
- linguistic trick
- passive voice hides who is actually blocking