English-French translations for gridlock

• embouteillage
  Les journées sont rythmées par les embouteillages. Gridlock is the order of the day.
• impasse
  Sous sa nouvelle forme, elle pourrait constituer une solution � l’impasse actuelle. In its new form, it could provide an answer to the current gridlock.
• interblocage
• paralysie

Definition of gridlock

• A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way
• any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock
• To cause traffic congestion

Related words

• grid
• gridiron
• gride
• griddle
• griddlecake
• gridlocked
• Sigrid
• Ingrid
• diagrid