How to pronounce “barrier to entry”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (figurative, by extension) An impediment that prohibits the use, adoption, application, etc. of (something).
• (finance) A cost that must be incurred by a new entrant into a market, but which does not apply to incumbents.
• Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see barrier,‎ to,‎ entry.

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