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noun

bottleneck

a point of congestion that restricts the flow or progress of a process

In a sentence

Six example sentences with bottleneck, each labelled with its topic.

  • Profiling showed the bottleneck was not the database but a single thread compressing every image before upload.

    Technology

  • One narrow bridge is the bottleneck for the whole island, and every ferry arrival backs traffic up for an hour.

    Travel

  • The plant runs three shifts, yet the paint booth remains the bottleneck, holding finished frames for two full days.

    Business

  • A single port became the bottleneck for the whole economy, with ships anchored offshore for three weeks waiting to unload.

    Economics

  • The emergency department's bottleneck is not the doctors but the single scanner every serious case must pass through.

    Medicine

  • Hiring became the bottleneck, since every candidate had to interview with the founder and she was booked six weeks out.

    Startups

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