logjam

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts.
2. noun A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress.

   Efforts to amend the law got sidetracked in an administrative logjam.

3. verb To deliberately impede or delay the progress of.

Similar words

alley gating gridlock backlog block morass quagmire treadmill blockade standoff

Often followed by

of in was that and on at by is

Word family

logjammed logjamming logjams