Converse of object

• avoid: How are we to avoid gridlock becoming common place in our major metropolitan areas?

• prevent: In fact, privately Darling knows that more radical measures are needed to prevent the gridlock.

• cause: We are working flat-out to bring reduce water losses as fast as we can without causing gridlock in London, where leakage is highest.

• create: Surely, the priority should be to get the traffic off the roundabout - not create gridlock?

• have: If there is not a substantial move to public transport we will have gridlock and the whole regeneration will not work,' he says.

• face: Our roads and transport system in general did not face total gridlock.

Preposition: at

• time: Meanwhile the congestion on the western half of town already close to gridlock at some times of day will be worse.

Adjective modifier

• total: What we didn't expect was a total gridlock on the motorway about 6 Km short of Murcia.

• political: Too expensive, too political, too much gridlock and dissatisfaction.

• projective: Such couples could be said to be in a kind of ' projective gridlock ' .

Preposition: on

• road: They were watching for the " nightmare scenario " - complete gridlock on the inner ring road surrounding the central charging zone.

Noun used with modifier

• traffic: The objective of Rush Hour is to move the little red car out of the snarled up traffic gridlock that the game begins with.

• road: BBC News, 6/6/05 Charging plan aims to prevent road gridlock.

• transport: How Britain could be gridlocked Daily Express, May 18 2003 Every day, we are always on the brink of transport gridlock.

Preposition: for

• hour: I thought of them and my Australian passport as I sat in traffic gridlock for four hours last week.

Modifies a noun

• scenario: Rush Hour arrives with 40 challenge cards, which depict various gridlock scenarios to set up your traffic jam to.

• traffic: Take on the mob, the police and the gridlock traffic of Turin for glorious riches or a life behind bars.