Word Finder - gridlock

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A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.

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On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.

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(by extension) any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.

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To cause traffic congestion

How are we to avoid gridlock becoming common place in our major metropolitan areas?

Headlights were backed up as far as the eye could see, waiting impatiently for someone to direct them away from the gridlock.

We cannot hold hostage to sovereign gridlock the keys to final deliverance from the nuclear nightmare.

Zebrafish embryos with a mutation called gridlock show faulty development of blood vessels in the lower portion of the body.

In fact, privately Darling knows that more radical measures are needed to prevent the gridlock.

We are working flat-out to bring reduce water losses as fast as we can without causing gridlock in London, where leakage is highest.

Surely, the priority should be to get the traffic off the roundabout - not create gridlock?

If there is not a substantial move to public transport we will have gridlock and the whole regeneration will not work,' he says.

Our roads and transport system in general did not face total gridlock.

What we didn't expect was a total gridlock on the motorway about 6 Km short of Murcia.

Such couples could be said to be in a kind of ' projective gridlock ' .

The objective of Rush Hour is to move the little red car out of the snarled up traffic gridlock that the game begins with.

How Britain could be gridlocked Daily Express, May 18 2003 Every day, we are always on the brink of transport gridlock.

Rush Hour arrives with 40 challenge cards, which depict various gridlock scenarios to set up your traffic jam to.

More often than not, parenting teens is far from a scenic drive on a country road and more like being stuck in gridlock traffic.