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Congestion   /kəndʒˈɛstʃən/   Listen
Congestion

noun
1.
Excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part.
2.
Excessive crowding.  Synonym: over-crowding.



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"Congestion" Quotes from Famous Books



... third reason for our conclusion, the reason that money might be expended in other ways with greater advantage to the unemployed, and with greater relief to the congestion of cities, we refer again to the recommendations of the Departmental Committee appointed by the English government to consider Commissioner Haggard's report.[81] In their report they recommend a system of emigration from the ...
— The Social Work of the Salvation Army • Edwin Gifford Lamb
... admit that you possess it. Are you prepared to submit proof of your title to the Commission?—Certainly; but it would probably mean bringing forty van-loads of press-cuttings and cause considerable congestion of traffic. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 21, 1919. • Various
... sleep last night; and a kind of brain-congestion frequently comes, at first, of such cold," said Obenreizer. "I have seen it often. After all, we shall have our journey ...
— No Thoroughfare • Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins
... mausoleum costing $300,000, which he himself had ordered to be built at New Dorp, Staten Island; and there to-day his ashes lie, splendidly interred, while millions of the living plundered and disinherited are suffered to live in the deadly congestion of miserable habitations. ...
— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers
... this phase of the city problem has been published recently: Industrial Causes of Congestion of Population in New York City, by E.E. Pratt, Ph.D., (New York, ...
— The Negro at Work in New York City - A Study in Economic Progress • George Edmund Haynes


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