- 1a narrow or busy section of road where the traffic often gets slower and stops He drove around the outside of the city to avoid the bottleneck in the center. a traffic bottleneck
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- 2anything that delays development or progress, particularly in business or industry to create/eliminate bottlenecks in the manufacturing process
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