logjam

(noun)

noun

1. any stoppage attributable to unusual activity

- the legislation ran into a logjam

Definition categories: state, arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage

2. an immovable mass of logs blocking a river

Definition categories: group, mass

Sentences with logjam as a noun:

- Efforts to amend the law got sidetracked in an administrative logjam.

- A step forward for the minimum wage increase this afternoon, as the Senate cleared the logjam of the Republican filibuster. [1]