2. Adjective. (context: of traffic) Stationary in a gridlock ¹
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Definition of Gridlocked
1. gridlock [v] - See also: gridlock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gridlocked
Literary usage of Gridlocked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Criminal Polit Buros and Other Plagues by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"I was totally gridlocked in every state and federal court, reflecting the ...
The legal fraternity had me gridlocked in the California and federal courts ..."
2. Personal Cars and China =: Si Ren Jiao Che Yu Zhongguo by National Research Council (U.S.), Zhongguo gong cheng yuan (2003)
"Without exceptional investments, management, and policy intervention, the city
could quickly become gridlocked. As noted earlier, serious traffic congestion ..."
3. Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa by Joseph H. Alexander (1996)
"The fighting was still intense, the Japanese fire still murderous, but the
surviving Marines were on the move, no longer gridlocked in precarious toeholds ..."
4. India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991 by Dennis Kux (1994)
"With the largest crowds since the celebration of Indian independence, the motorcade
was swallowed up in the sea of people and totally gridlocked for over an ..."
5. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"The gridlocked highway is just the first of a series of emblematic images and
discourses in the film representing Los Angeles in terms of a highly ..."
6. America-Still Unprepared, Still in Danger by Warren B. Rudman, Gary Hart, Stephen E. Flynn (2002)
"Service contracts would need to be renegotiated. As this system became gridlocked,
so would much of global commerce. ..."
7. The Future of Privacy by Perri 6 (1998)
"... where conflict has ceased to be viable because cultural conflict has become
gridlocked;29 protracted for any period, such arrangements tend to be ..."
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