bottleneck
/ˈbɑtəlˌnɛk/
noun
- A narrow part of a road or path where traffic slows down or gets stuck.
- The old town square becomes a bottleneck during rush hour.
- We hit a bottleneck on the highway near the bridge.
- The construction created a bottleneck that delayed everyone for miles.
- A point in a process or system where progress is slowed or stopped because of limited capacity.
- Slow internet speed can be a bottleneck for remote work.
- We need to identify the bottleneck in the production line.
- The shipping department is a bottleneck in our supply chain.
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verb
- To cause a delay or blockage in a process or movement.
- A single slow computer can bottleneck the entire network.
- Too many approvals bottleneck the hiring process.
- The accident bottlenecked traffic for hours.