The shortage of engineers is the greatest bottleneck to the development of our company.
Source: tatoeba (20052)
Bottleneck
Synonyms for "bottleneck" (146 found)
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Closest matches (30)
Strong matches (43)
compressureconcentralizationconcentrationconcourseconcurrencecondensationconfluenceconfluxcongestioncongressconsolidationconstipationconstrictionconstringencycontractioncontractureconvergenceconvergingcordoncostiveness
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crossingcul-de-saccurtailmentcurtaindead enddecreasedefiledetermentdeterrentdifficultydiminuendodrawbackembolismembolusfly in the ointmentfocalizationfocusfunnelgorge
Noun(4 words)
Related words (73)
hang uphang-uphazardhitchhourglasshourglass figurehubhurdleimpasseimpedimentinfarctinfarctionisthmusjamjokerknittingmeetingmutual approachnarrownarrow place
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narrowingnarrowing gapnarrowsneckobjectionobstacleobstipationobstructionobstructiveone small difficultypasspuckeringpursingradiusreductionrubsealing offshorteningsnagsolidificationspokespokesstopstoppagestraitstranglementstrangulationstrictionstricturestumbling blockstumbling stonesystoletangentthroatwasp waistwrinkling
Noun(16 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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More general
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
More specific
7 entriescapacity constraintcycle bottleneckline bottleneckprocess bottleneckproduction bottlenecksupply bottleneckthroughput constraint
Collocations
10 entriesbottleneck throughputcapacity bottleneckinformation bottleneckline bottleneckpolicy bottleneckprocess bottleneckproduction bottlenecksupply bottlenecksupply chain bottleneckthroughput bottleneck
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
35 translations across 28 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- عُنُق الزُّجَاجَة noun (neck of a bottle)
Bashkir
1 entries- шешә ауыҙы noun (neck of a bottle)
Catalan
1 entries- coll d'ampolla noun (neck of a bottle)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 瓶頸 /瓶颈 noun (neck of a bottle)
Czech
1 entries- hrdlo lahve noun (neck of a bottle)
Danish
1 entries- flaskehals noun (neck of a bottle)
Dutch
1 entries- flessenhals noun (neck of a bottle)
Finnish
1 entries- pullonkaula noun (neck of a bottle)
French
3 entries- goulot noun (neck of a bottle)
- goulot de bouteille noun (neck of a bottle)
- tête de bouteille noun (neck of a bottle)
Galician
1 entries- gorgozo noun (neck of a bottle)
German
1 entries- Flaschenhals noun (neck of a bottle)
Hungarian
1 entries- palacknyak noun (neck of a bottle)
Icelandic
2 entries- flöskuháls noun (neck of a bottle)
- stútur noun (neck of a bottle)
Irish
2 entries- scrogall noun (neck of a bottle)
- scrogall buidéil noun (neck of a bottle)
Italian
1 entries- collo di bottiglia noun (neck of a bottle)
Japanese
1 entries- 瓶の首 noun (neck of a bottle)
Macedonian
1 entries- грло на шише noun (neck of a bottle)
Malay
2 entries- cerutan noun (neck of a bottle)
- kejejalan noun (neck of a bottle)
Mongolian
1 entries- лонхны хүзүү noun (neck of a bottle)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- flaskehals noun (neck of a bottle)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- flaskehals noun (neck of a bottle)
Polish
1 entries- szyjka noun (neck of a bottle)
Portuguese
1 entries- gargalo noun (neck of a bottle)
Russian
2 entries- го́рлышко noun (neck of a bottle)
- го́рлышко буты́лки noun (neck of a bottle)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- grlić noun (neck of a bottle)
- грлић noun (neck of a bottle)
Spanish
1 entries- cuello de botella noun (neck of a bottle)
Swedish
1 entries- flaskhals noun (neck of a bottle)
Uyghur
1 entries- جوغا noun (neck of a bottle)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Ashkenazi Jews experienced a population bottleneck around 700 years ago.
Source: tatoeba (9671553)
Ashkenazim experienced a population bottleneck around 700 years ago.
Source: tatoeba (9973792)
“The real bottleneck is to find out the technique to make large area graphene layers and that’s not yet possible, I don’t think, but there is a lot of research going on,” he said.
Source: tatoeba (12390464)
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