1 a narrow or busy section of road where the traffic often slows down and stops:
He drove around the outside of the town to avoid the bottleneck in the centre. * a traffic bottleneck
2 anything that slows down development or progress, particularly in business or industry:
to create / eliminate bottlenecks in the manufacturing process
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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