Congestion

Definition: Congestion

Congestion

Noun

1. Excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part.

2. Excessive crowding; "traffic congestion".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "congestion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Etymology: Congestion \Con*ges"tion\, noun. [Latin expression congestio: compare to the French expression congestion.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Energy

Health

Post & Telecom

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Congestion

Assemblage

Accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantity; (greatness).

Redundancy

Noun: redundancy, redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion; (plenty); repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more than enough; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener; turgescence; (expansion); overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow; inundation; (water); avalanche.

Crosswords: Congestion

French (congestion, plethora, rush).

That was Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, a song in which Joni complains they 'Paved paradise to put up a parking lot', a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn't quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. (I'm Alan Partridge; writing credit: Peter Baynham; Steve Coogan)

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Books

• Curbing Gridlock: Peak-Period Fees to Relieve Traffic Congestion (Special Report, 242) (reference)

• Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing (TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH, ECONOMICS AND POLICY Volume 9) (reference)

• Stuck in Traffic: Coping With Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (reference)

• Success in commodities : the congestion phase system (reference)

• Traffic Congestion and Traffic Safety in the 21st Century: Challenges, Innovations, and Opportunities (reference)

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Traffic congestion in Groton, Connecticut, at afternoon change of shift of Electric Boat Works. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lines of cars going into Alexandria, showing traffic congestion. Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Other nasal sprays contain steroids to combat congestion. (references)

Pulmonary congestion (or edema)--Fluid accumulation in the lungs. (references)

In some cases, congestion may be severe enough to prevent or interrupt sleep. (references)

Business

Roadwatch alerts users to traffic congestion and offers planned alternatives. (references)

To help reduce congestion, and vehicle emission, the Czech government has embarked on a major motorways building and upgrading program. (references)

Within Belgium, the amount of time spent in the car is on the rise due to increases in traffic congestion and changes in driver habits. (references)

Economic History

Bolivia

On occasion bad weather, road blockages, port congestion and other factors can block these channels. (references)

Netherlands

Other benefits include less congestion, and the availability of financial incentives at some locations. (references)

Bangladesh

The Chittagong port suffers from inefficient space management, a shortage of handling equipment, corruption and congestion. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

In 2000 the President signed the Community Service Act, designed to reduce prison congestion by allowing minor offenders to do community service instead of being imprisoned. (references)

Dominican Republic

While in 2000 the congestion in the criminal system was reduced by more than 50 percent through use of community conciliation centers, those gains largely were lost during the year. (references)

Zambia

In 1999 the Magistrates and Judges' Association of Zambia expressed its intention to undertake efforts to release all eligible detainees on bail in order to reduce prison congestion. (references)

Political Economy

NIGERIA

The result of this enhanced inspection regime has been severe port congestion as ports lack the facilities to cope with the widely expanded operations. (references)

Trade

Bahrain

Delivery delays due to port congestion are considered force majeure conditions. (references)

Venezuela

In order to alleviate congestion at ports and airports, Customs will authorize this procedure to take place in a bonded warehouse or under special arrangements at extra cost at the recipient's warehouse. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

Traffic congestion in built up areas often causes gridlock. (references)

Philippines

Distances that might be covered quickly in the United States can take much longer in the Philippines, due to poor road quality and congestion. (references)

Israel

Commuter trains are becoming a more popular means of travel between these points as the rush-hour traffic and congestion continues to grow around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. (references)

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Expressions using "congestion": call congestion ♦ congestion forward ♦ congestion management plan ♦ congestion management system ♦ congestion of population ♦ congestion of the lungs ♦ congestion tone ♦ forward explicit congestion notification ♦ Nasal congestion ♦ passive congestion ♦ peak commute congestion period ♦ Pulmonary congestion ♦ radio congestion ♦ time congestion ♦ traffic congestion ♦ Vicks DayQuil Sinus Pressure & Congestion Relief [OTC]. Additional references.

Beginning with "congestion": congestion-busting, congestion-free.

Afrikaans

aandrang (insistence, pressure, rush, urgency). (various references)

Albanian

ngjeshje (compression, conciseness, cram, density, jam, jaw, jostle, squash, squeeze), mbipopullim (overpopulation), kongjestion, dyndje (cram, flux, indraft, indraught, inrush, invasion, irruption, onrush, press, squash). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إكتظاظ (cheek by jowl, overcrowding, squeeze), ‏إحتقان, ‏إزدحام (crowding, overcrowding, throng). (various references)

Bulgarian 

конгестия, натрупване (accretion, accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, concourse, cumulation, hilling, jam, lodgement, lodgment), задръстване (blockage, entanglement, foul, jam, obstruction, occlusion, stoppage), пренаселеност (overpopulation, spillover). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�塞 , 壅塞. (various references)

Czech

zahlcení, přeplnìní (overfulfilment). (various references)

Danish

kongestion. (various references)

Dutch

congestie (rush), bloedaandrang (rush). (various references)

Esperanto

sangalfluo (rush), kongesto. (various references)

Farsi 

گرفتگی (Eclipse, Jamming, Melancholia, Obstruction), تراکم (Aggregate, Aggregation, Compression, Congeries, Density). (various references)

Finnish

ruuhka-alue (agglomeration, congested area, urban agglomeration), estotila (blocking), esto (inhibition). (various references)

French

congestion (traffic congestion), encombrement. (various references)

German

stauung (actual stowage, build up, hold up, jam, pile up, stasis, stowage, tailback), stau (barrier effect, build up, jam, pile-up, pond, stagnation, stoppage, traffic congestion, traffic jam), Kongestion, Überlastung (overloading, thrashing). (various references)

Greek 

συμφόρηση (congeries), υπεραιμία (hyperemia). (various references)

Hebrew 

ת�"חוקת (crush, jam, overcrowding), �"צטופפות (crowding, huddle), צפיפות (compactness, consistency, crowding, density, jam, squeeze, thickness). (various references)

Hungarian

vértolulás (engorgement), torlódás (bottleneck, entanglement, jam, obstruction, piling), túlnépesedés (overcrowding, overpopulation), zsúfoltság, vérbőség, forgalmi torlódás (congested traffic, jam, traffic snarl). (various references)

Indonesian

buntu (blocked, deadlocked, stumped). (various references)

Italian

congestione (blocking, engorgement, traffic block, traffic congestion, traffic hold-up, traffic snarl-up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

雑踏 (hustle and bustle, throng, traffic jam), 停滞 (accumulation, falling into arrears, retention, stagnation, tie-up), 混雑 (confusion), 渋滞 (delay, stagnation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ざっとう (hustle and bustle, throng, traffic jam), うったい (pent-up feelings), うっせき (stagnation, suppression), �"�"ざつ (confusion), じゅうたい (column, critical state, delay, serious condition, seriously ill, stagnation, zodiac), じゅうけつ, ていたい (accumulation, falling into arrears, hard, retention, severe, stagnation, tie-up). (various references)

Korean 

혼잡 (mess). (various references)

Manx

plooghey (asphyxia, asthma, choke, choking, congest, cushion, fugginess, glut, inundate, inundation, muffle, restrain, smother, smothering, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, tamp), peeaghaneys (throatiness), glooid (closeness, compactness, density, jam, size). (various references)

Norwegian

opphopning. (various references)

Pig Latin

ongestioncay

Portuguese

congestionamento (cram, jam, traffic jam), congestão (engorgement). (various references)

Romanian

congestionare, congestie (plethora), aglomerare (agglomeration), îngrãmãdire (block, congeries, cram, hoard, squash). (various references)

Russian 

перегрузка (overburden, overdrive, overfreight, overload, overwork, surcharge, transshipment). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapušenost (stuffiness), zakrčenost, kongestija. (various references)

Spanish

congestión (snarl up). (various references)

Swedish

stockning (catch, hold up, jam, standstill). (various references)

Turkish

yoğunluk (compactness, consistence, consistency, denseness, density, depth, intenseness, intension, intensity, thickness, turbidity, volume), tıkanıklık (being choked up, blockage, bottleneck, deadlock, hold up, jam, stoppage, stuffiness, tie up), sıkışıklık (block, constriction, denseness, density, jam, press, squeeze, stringency), kan toplanması (afflux, hypostasis, plethora), kan hücumu (afflux), kalabalık (army, assemblage, cohort, concourse, congested, cram, crop, crowd, crowded, crush, drove, flock, gaggle, gathering, hive, horde, host, huddle, legion, mob, multitude, multitudinous, populous, press, regiment, rush hour, shoal, spate, squash, throng, thronged, wilderness), izdiham (concourse, confluence, conflux, cram, crowd, jam, mob, multitude, press, squeeze, stampede, throng). (various references)

Ukrainian

скупченість, нагромадження (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, exaggeration, packing), затор (dead lock, gorge, hold up, jam, jamming, lock, stopping), перенаселеність (overpopulation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự đông nghịt. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "congestion": congestions. (additional references)

Words ending with "congestion": decongestion. (additional references)

Words containing "congestion": decongestions. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Congestion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coingestion, Congerton, conjestion, consestion, contestion. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: connotes, coonties, escoting, ionogens, scenting, scooting, snooting.

-3 letters: censing, cogitos, cognise, coignes, congest, congoes, conines, connote, consent, consign, coontie, cooties, costing, gentoos, gnostic, gooiest, goonies, intones, ionogen, ionones, isogone, isotone, nesting, nonegos, noosing, notices, notions, section, sooting, stoning, tensing, tension.

-4 letters: centos, cestoi, cogent, cogito, cogons, coigne, coigns, conges, congos, conies, conine, coning.

+1 letter: cognoscenti, congestions, copingstone.

+2 letters: congelations, copingstones, decongestion, recognitions.

+3 letters: cogenerations, concertgoings, congregations, counterposing, countinghouse, decongestions, octogenarians, precognitions.

+4 letters: contagiousness, contiguousness, counterpoising, countinghouses, oncogenicities, serotoninergic, xenodiagnostic.

+5 letters: conglomerations, endocrinologist, nonrecognitions, overdiscounting, reconsolidating.