English-Spanish translations for gridlock

• atasco
  Todo esto es una receta para el caos y el atasco en los sistemas nacionales de asilo. All this is a recipe for chaos and gridlock in national asylum systems.
  Situaciones similares se suscitaron en la parte occidental de Francia, donde muchos caminos quedaron intransitables para el tráfico y donde, además, se produjeron atascos en el sistema de transporte. Similar situations arose in the western part of France, where many roads were impassable to traffic and caused gridlock to the transport system.
• embotellamiento
• paralización
  Atasco, contaminación, paralización total del tráfico, calentamiento del planeta, inundaciones, tiempo insólito. Congestion, pollution, gridlock, global warming, floods, freak weather.

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