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名詞

choke point (plural choke points)

1. Alternative form of chokepoint.
   • 2022 March 9, Stefan Rose, “Supporting rail freight growth”, in RAIL, number 952, page 34:

     Other challenges include the ongoing disruption and choke points in the global container market, which have created an imbalance in the supply and demand for goods.

   • 2026 May 22, Nick Lawson, “How to invest in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan sits on one of the most extraordinary resource endowments on Earth. Should investors cash in?”, in MoneyWeek‎:

     The benchmark price for ammonium paratungstate – the white crystalline powder that is the standard intermediate stage that virtually all mined tungsten passes through before being refined into metal, carbide cutting tools, or missile-grade alloys – has risen 716% in a year. The price chart looks almost vertical. Russia, meanwhile, controls 46% of global uranium-enrichment capacity, a choke point that Western utilities are only now starting to engineer around.

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