chokepoint

[chohk-point]

noun

1. a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chokepoint¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

But what that generation of CEOs often missed is that globalization also created chokepoints — areas of the global economy where one country, often the U.S., holds dominant power, and there are few or no substitutes.

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At the chokepoint entering South Lake Union, crews will widen Fairview Avenue North to build a bus bypass lane at Valley Street traffic lights.

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Drought created chokepoints last year on the Mississippi River and the Rhine in Europe.

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Several shipping companies said they will suspend travel through the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a chokepoint that links the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea, until security there improves.

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It was the latest incident in a series of attacks on commercial vessels passing through the crucial Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint in the Red Sea, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.

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