English-Portuguese translations for gridlock

• engarrafamento
  Os engarrafamentos são o pão nosso de cada dia. Gridlock is the order of the day.
  Congestionamento, poluição, engarrafamentos, aquecimento global, inundações, tempo imprevisível. Congestion, pollution, gridlock, global warming, floods, freak weather.
  Se não forem tomadas as medidas necessárias imediatamente, o espaço aéreo europeu terá em breve engarrafamentos. If the necessary steps are not taken immediately, Europe's airspace will soon be in gridlock.
• impasse
  A complacência conduzirá ao impasse.Complacency will lead to gridlock.
  Na sua nova forma, esta poderia fornecer uma resposta ao impasse actual. In its new form, it could provide an answer to the current gridlock.
  Estamos a chegar a uma fase em que a União Europeia se defronta com um impasse orçamental potencial.We are reaching a stage where the European Union is faced with potential budgetary gridlock.

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