bottleneck

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WORD FAMILY

bottleneck: bottlenecked, bottlenecking, bottlenecks

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E-commerce firms in particular are worried that a bottleneck in logistics could choke off their spectacular recent growth.

Economist(Jul 10, 2014)

They have been described as one the UK's worst bottlenecks and incidents have often brought that stretch to a standstill.

BBC(Jul 08, 2014)

Because the amount of oil produced in Canada and North Dakota has outpaced the pipeline system, bottlenecks have developed.

Washington Times(Jul 04, 2014)

The bottleneck of kids being arrested along the border has the administration scrambling to keep up.

MSNBC(Jul 01, 2014)

It takes into account rail, air, pipeline and road transport and identifies “bottlenecks” slowing down transport, Ehreth said.

Washington Times(Jun 29, 2014)

nthe narrow part of a bottle near the top

na narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel

Synonyms:

chokepoint, constriction

vslow down or impede by creating an obstruction

His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system

vbecome narrow, like a bottleneck

Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks

bottleneck

[noun]

= hold-up, block, blockage, congestion, impediment, jam, obstacle, obstruction, snarl-up (informal, chiefly Brit.)

bot·tle·neck

\\ˈbä-t^əl-ˌnek\\ adjective

DATE 1896

: narrow
bottleneck harbors

noun

DATE 1907

1.
  a. a narrow route
  b. a point of traffic congestion
2.
  a. someone or something that retards or halts free movement and progress
  b. impasse
  c. a dramatic reduction in the size of a population (as of a species) that results in a decrease in genetic variation
3. a style of guitar playing in which glissando effects are produced by sliding an object (as a knife blade or the neck of a bottle) along the strings — called also bottleneck guitar

III

transitive verb

DATE 1933

: to slow or halt by causing a bottleneck

bottleneck

noun

/ˈbɒtlnek/

/ˈbɑːtlnek/

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a narrow or busy section of road where the traffic often gets slower and stops瓶颈路段（常引起交通阻塞）
- He drove around the outside of the town to avoid the bottleneck in the centre.他开车到镇外逛逛，以避开市中心的瓶颈。
- a traffic bottleneck交通瓶颈
- Opponents argue that the traffic lights would cause a bottleneck at the junction.反对者认为，交通信号灯会在交叉路口造成瓶颈。
Topics Transport by car or lorryc2
anything that delays development or progress, particularly in business or industry（尤指工商业发展的）瓶颈，阻碍，障碍
- to create/eliminate bottlenecks in the manufacturing process在制造过程中创建/消除瓶颈
compare logjamTopics Businessc2

bottleneck

noun
cars were advised to avoid the bottleneck on Talbot Road
CONSTRICTION , narrowing, restriction, obstruction, block, blockage, stoppage, jam, congestion;
TRAFFIC JAM , hold-up, gridlock, queue, tailback; informal snarl-up.

bottleneck
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⇨ DELAY 4

bottleneck
bot·tle·neck / 5bBtl7nZk ; 5bRtlnek /noun C
1. a place in a road where the traffic cannot pass easily, so that there are a lot of delays瓶颈路段，交通阻塞点，狭窄路段
2. a delay in one stage of a process that makes the whole process take longer〔妨碍工作进度的〕瓶颈，障碍:

•Understaffing has caused a real bottleneck.人手不足妨碍了整个进度。

bottleneck

1.N-COUNT 可数名词瓶颈路段；狭窄路段；交通拥堵地段 A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.

2.N-COUNT 可数名词（阻碍进展的）瓶颈，障碍 A bottleneck is a situation that stops a process or activity from progressing.

He pushed everyone full speed ahead until production hit a bottleneck.
他催促所有人拼命干活，直到生产遭遇瓶颈。

bottleneck

1[N-COUNT 可数名词] 瓶颈路段；狭窄路段；交通拥堵地段；A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.

2[N-COUNT 可数名词] 阻碍进展的瓶颈，障碍；A bottleneck is a situation that stops a process or activity from progressing.

He pushed everyone full speed ahead until production hit a bottleneck.
他催促所有人拼命干活，直到生产遭遇瓶颈。

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