bottleneck
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[edit] Etymology
[edit] Noun
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bottleneck (plural bottlenecks)
- the narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle
- in traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
- any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
- It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.
[edit] Translations
neck of a bottle
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narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
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[edit] Verb
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to bottleneck (third-person singular simple present bottlenecks, present participle bottlenecking, simple past and past participle bottlenecked)
- (transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.
- The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
- (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.
- The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.