The shortage of engineers is the greatest bottleneck to the development of our company.
Source: tatoeba (20052)
Bottleneck
Synonyms for "bottleneck" (126 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (63)
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Noun(1 words)
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12 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
9 entriesderived from
2 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
117 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀπορία noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
Arabic
1 entries- عُنُق الزُّجَاجَة noun (neck of a bottle)
Bashkir
3 entries- тар урын noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- тар урын noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- шешә ауыҙы noun (neck of a bottle)
Catalan
4 entries- coll d'ampolla noun (neck of a bottle)
- coll d'ampolla noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- coll d'ampolla noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- embussament noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 瓶頸 /瓶颈 noun (neck of a bottle)
- 耽誤 /耽误 noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
Czech
4 entries- hrdlo lahve noun (neck of a bottle)
- zúžení noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- úzké hrdlo noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- úzké místo noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
Danish
3 entries- flaskehals noun (neck of a bottle)
- flaskehals noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- flaskehals noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
Dutch
3 entries- bottleneck noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- flessenhals noun (neck of a bottle)
- knelpunt noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
Finnish
4 entries- pullonkaula noun (neck of a bottle)
- pullonkaula noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- pullonkaula noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- ruuhkauttaa verb (to slow by causing a bottleneck)
French
4 entries- goulet d'étranglement noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- 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
4 entries- Engpass noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- Engpass noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- Engstelle noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- Flaschenhals noun (neck of a bottle)
Hungarian
3 entries- palacknyak noun (neck of a bottle)
- szűk keresztmetszet noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- útszűkület noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
Icelandic
3 entries- flöskuháls noun (neck of a bottle)
- stútur noun (neck of a bottle)
- þrengsli noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
Irish
4 entries- bac noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- caolas tráchta noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- scrogall noun (neck of a bottle)
- scrogall buidéil noun (neck of a bottle)
Italian
4 entries- collo di bottiglia noun (neck of a bottle)
- collo di bottiglia noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- collo di bottiglia noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- imbuto noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
Japanese
4 entries- ネック noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- ボトルネック noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- 瓶の首 noun (neck of a bottle)
- 隘路 noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
Macedonian
3 entries- грло на шише noun (neck of a bottle)
- за́стој noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- стесну́вање noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
Malay
4 entries- cerutan noun (neck of a bottle)
- cerutan noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- kejejalan noun (neck of a bottle)
- kejejalan noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
Mongolian
1 entries- лонхны хүзүү noun (neck of a bottle)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- flaskehals noun (neck of a bottle)
- flaskehals noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- flaskehals noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- flaskehals noun (neck of a bottle)
- flaskehals noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- flaskehals noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
Persian
1 entries- گلوگاه noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
Polish
3 entries- szyjka noun (neck of a bottle)
- wąskie gardło noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- zwężenie noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
Portuguese
3 entries- engarrafamento noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- gargalo noun (neck of a bottle)
- gargalo noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
Russian
4 entries- го́рлышко noun (neck of a bottle)
- го́рлышко буты́лки noun (neck of a bottle)
- дефиле́ noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- зато́р noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- grlić noun (neck of a bottle)
- suženje noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- usko grlo noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- грлић noun (neck of a bottle)
Spanish
4 entries- atasco noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
- boquerón noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- cuello noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- cuello de botella noun (neck of a bottle)
Swedish
3 entries- flaskhals noun (neck of a bottle)
- flaskhals noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- flaskhals noun (part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome)
Tagalog
2 entries- pagsisikip noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
- salangkipot noun (narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay)
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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