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English Dictionary: Bottleneck by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bottleneck
n
  1. a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel [syn: constriction, bottleneck, chokepoint]
  2. the narrow part of a bottle near the top
v
  1. slow down or impede by creating an obstruction; "His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system"
  2. become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"
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