What part of speech is bottleneck?

Bottleneck can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. bottleneck is a verb, present, 1st person singular of bottleneck (infinitive).
  • 2. bottleneck is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. bottleneck is a noun, singular of bottlenecks.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does bottleneck mean?

Definitions

Verb

bottleneck - become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"
bottleneck - slow down or impede by creating an obstruction; "His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system"

Noun

bottleneck - the narrow part of a bottle near the top
bottleneck - a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel

Examples of bottleneck

#   Sentence  
1. noun The shortage of engineers is the greatest bottleneck to the development of our company.
2. noun Ashkenazi Jews experienced a population bottleneck around 700 years ago.
3. noun Ashkenazim experienced a population bottleneck around 700 years ago.
Sentence  
noun
The shortage of engineers is the greatest bottleneck to the development of our company.
Ashkenazi Jews experienced a population bottleneck around 700 years ago.
Ashkenazim experienced a population bottleneck around 700 years ago.

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