GRIDLOCK | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of gridlock in English
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Examples of gridlock
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Businesses were affected, homes were flooded and the city was gridlocked.
I foresee that, this summer, it will be gridlocked, with cars unable to move in either direction.
In addition, traffic congestion costs business £19 billion a year and our cities and towns are becoming gridlocked.
We would give greater flexibility in the use of those hospital beds by preventing them from being gridlocked because of lack of provision elsewhere.
We are gridlocked, as it were, on the negotiations.
During the winter, there is less of a bottleneck, but the road is still gridlocked at many times of the day.
Most towns and cities would be gridlocked.
He said that roads were gridlocked.
All this is a recipe for chaos and gridlock in national asylum systems.
In addition, we want to find out, and many people outside want to understand, how gridlock will be avoided.
Without reform, we would be likely to see bureaucratic gridlock at 25.
The shambles will be total and gridlock complete.
If both the new authority and the mayor have power, political differences would mean gridlock .
In my view, that would be a recipe for gridlock .
The result was gridlock with decaying buildings, wasted resources, mounting deficits with increasing dangers of clinical risk and all going nowhere.
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Translations of gridlock
in Chinese (Traditional)
（市區）交通大擠塞, 僵局…
in Chinese (Simplified)
（市区）交通大堵塞, 僵局…
in Spanish
colapso del tráfico, punto muerto, bloqueo…
in Portuguese
engarrafamento, impasse, congestionamento…
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trafik tıkanıklığı/sıkışıklığı, tıkanıklık, sıkışıklık…
dopravní zácpa, slepá ulička…
macet total, ketidaksepakatan, situasi buntu…
รถติด, สถานการณ์ที่ไม่คืบหน้า…
kesesakan teruk, kebuntuan…
der Verkehrskollaps, der Stillstand…
затор, глухий кут, безвихідь…
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