English-Finnish translations for bottleneck

• pullonkaula
  Euron toimittamisen lisäksi myös pankkikortilla maksaminen on pullonkaula. Along with the availability of euros, payment by bank card is another bottleneck.
  Pullonkaula, kuten totesimme useasti, oli neuvostossa. The bottleneck, as we quite often noticed, was located within the Council of Ministers.
  Todellisuus kentällä on pullonkaula, emmekä saa unohtaa sitä keskusteluissamme. The reality on the ground is the bottleneck and we should never forget this in this discussion.
• kaula
• ruuhkauttaa
  ruuhkauttaa liikennettä
  ruuhkauttaa tien
  ruuhkauttaa hätänumeron
• ruuhkautua

Definition of bottleneck

• The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle
• The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• To slow by causing a bottleneck
• To form a bottleneck

Examples

• It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck
• The bottleneck in this computer program is the inefficient sorting process; we should replace it with a faster one
• The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning
• The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning

Related words

• debottlenecking
• labor bottleneck
• labour bottleneck
• supply bottleneck
• traffic bottleneck