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a bottleneck
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a point where progress slows because too much has to pass through it
Written as one word. Common in business, traffic and computing: 'a bottleneck in the system'. The word names the point, not the whole problem.
In context
The single customs office is a bottleneck that delays every shipment by days.
We removed the bottleneck in production by hiring two more packers.
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