text: # logjam
  
  ## Anglais
  
  ### Étymologie
  
      Composé de log et de jam.
  
  ### Nom commun
  
  logjam \lɒɡˈdʒæm\, \lɔɡˈdʒæm\
  
  * Embâcle (de bois flottés).
     * Naturally occurring logjams in the Bolivian Amazon kill off almost as much rainforest as human activity—just under 1000 hectares per year in one part of Bolivia—the scientist reports in a forthcoming issue of Earth Systems Dynamics.— (Katherine Kornei, There’s a strange tree-killer on the loose in the Amazon: logjams Science Mag :le 7 avril 2017)
  * (Sens figuré) Blocage, impasse.
     * The senator tried to break the legislative logjam.
  