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logjam - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

logjam (plural logjams)

• An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts.
• (figuratively) A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress.
  • ✤ Efforts to amend the law got sidetracked in an administrative logjam.
  • ✤ Mr. Clinton can break the logjam by first convincing the public that he is willing to start with small but meaningful victories.¹
  • ✤ It is in the interest of all NATO and E.U. members to break political logjams. Our personnel operating in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and the Gulf of Aden have already learned that lesson.²

Verb

logjam (third-person singular simple present logjams, present participle logjamming, simple past and past participle logjammed)

• (transitive) To deliberately impede or delay the progress of.

Etymology

From log +‎ jam.

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1994 August 28, “Mr. Clinton: Break the Logjam”, in The New York Times ‎${}^{[1]}$, →ISSN: ↩

2. 2010 October 18, Ivo H. Daalder, “Breaking a Brussels Logjam”, in The New York Times ‎${}^{[2]}$, →ISSN: ↩

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