logjam
Noun
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Noun
logjam (plural logjams)
- An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts.
- (figuratively) A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress.
- Efforts to amend the law got sidetracked in an administrative logjam.
- A step forward for the minimum wage increase this afternoon, as the Senate cleared the logjam of the Republican filibuster.
- French: bourrage
- Russian: затор
- French: embouteillage, impasse
- Russian: тупик
- Spanish: atascamiento, bloqueo, obstrucción, callejón sin salida, círculo vicioso, pescadilla que se muerde la cola
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