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logjam

[ lawg-jam, log- ]

noun

  1. an immovable pileup or tangle of logs, log, as in a river, causing a blockage.
  2. any blockage or massive accumulation:

    a logjam of bills before Congress.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of logjam1

First recorded in 1880–85; log 1 + jam 1

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Example Sentences

But what he could not answer was how he would break the political logjam in Congress.

As the story that broke the logjam, "Birthday Boy" is a fascinating read.

But with a bipartisan alliance of radicals in Washington, the logjam of political dysfunction will finally be broken.

If you let somebody logjam the process, then it becomes a big problem at the end.

And he had broken ground on Porto Açu, a massive deepwater port meant to break the logjam of Brazilian shipping.

Rather wud I have perished in a logjam thin to've indured this ingratichood.

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