BOTTLENECKS
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Scrabble
23
WWF
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Definition
noun
- 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.
- (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.“It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.”
verb
- To slow by causing a bottleneck.“The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.”
- To form a bottleneck.“The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.”
Source: Wiktionary
