logjam
pronunciation
How to pronounce logjam in British English:
UK [ˈlɒgdʒæm]
How to pronounce logjam in American English:
US [ˈlɔgdʒæm]
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- Noun:
- any stoppage attributable to unusual activity
- an immovable mass of logs blocking a river
Word Origin
- logjam (n.)
- also log-jam, "congestion of logs on a river," by 1851, American English; see log (n.1) + jam (v.). The figurative sense is by 1890.
Example
- 1. So you 've broken through your creative logjam ?
- 2. A month , maybe two if there 's a logjam .
- 3. Third , the u.s. needs to break the logjam on opening markets .
- 4. To break the logjam , the finance ministry said this month it would cut taxes by half on interest earned from railway bonds issued between now and 2013 .
- 5. Others struggled over the next weeks and months to get parts for their manufacturing operations , a logjam that led many to rethink japan 's famed ' just-in-time ' system of inventory .