traffic jam

noun

1. jam.

traffic jam

noun

1. a number of vehicles so obstructed that they can scarcely move

Other Word Forms

• traffic-jammed adjective

Example Sentences

On Saturday morning, men with machetes hacked through branches as thick as their arms, clearing patches of the road where traffic jams were at a standstill.

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“While the market has been caught in quite a traffic jam of negativity lately, its uptrend, while stalled, is far from derailed,” said Eric Clark, chief investment officer at the Accuvest Global Advisors investment group.

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The good news is that last month, the Federal Reserve entered rate- cutting mode, meaning that sooner or later these great traffic jams of consumer wealth could come unstuck.

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The 23-year-old activist was scrolling through his social media feed in May, when he read complaints about how the high-profile marriage ceremony sparked huge traffic jams in the city of Bhaktapur.

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As often happens in a storm, almost everyone on the summit that day scrambled for the cables at once, creating a nightmarish traffic jam.

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Related Words

• blockage 
• bottleneck 
• congestion 
• gridlock 
• logjam 
• roadblock 
• rush hour