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/dˈɛdlˌɑk/ Listen

noun

deadlock n.

A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.

A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action. "Things are at a deadlock." "The Board is much more likely to be at a deadlock of two to two."

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Etymology of 'Deadlock'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deadlock" Quotes from Famous Books

... result would follow in each case—a terrible shattering of the industrial system, without the means of reorganizing it on new lines. Industry and finance would be at a deadlock, yet a return to the first principles of justice would not have been achieved, and society would find itself powerless ...

— The Conquest of Bread • Peter Kropotkin

... assemble at Buckingham Palace. On the twenty-fourth, the British and Irish leaders departed from Buckingham Palace in patriotic halos of national champions who had failed to agree "in principle or detail." Deadlock and Crisis flew about the streets in stupendous type; and though they had been doing so almost daily for the past eighteen months, everybody could see, with the most delicious thrills, that these were more firmly locked deadlocks and ...

— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson

... wavered. It recovers itself in the bracing atmosphere of a main-thoroughfare charged to bursting with lines of vehicles, any one of which would go slowly alone, but the collective slowness of which finds a vent in a deadlock a mile away—an hour before ...

— Somehow Good • William de Morgan

... But that's pretty soon—and not soon enough. Besides, Stern's got them under control, along with their families—the important ones, anyway. There'd be a deadlock when a conclave started checking their claims. And somehow, their councilors wouldn't be able to come up with quite the ...

— The Best Made Plans • Everett B. Cole

... Here was a deadlock indeed. It was an English ship, therefore the English rule of the road should be maintained. On the other hand, the fact that we were still in French waters was in his favour. But my stubborn British ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 15, 1919 • Various

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