congestee

congestee

English

Etymology

congest +‎ -ee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒn.dʒɛstˈiː/

Noun

congestee (plural congestees)

1. A person living in an area with a very high-density population.
   • 2003, Karl Samson et alios, Frommer’s « American Southwest, p1

     See “Tombstone” in chap — the parking problems and congestee.

   • 2005, Fergus J M Campbell, Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891–1921, p289

     …the once united tenant movement dissolved into a series of competing subgroups (graziers and congestees, purchased and unpurchased).

2. (pathology) A thing congested to the point of malfunction.
   • 1998, United States Congress et alia, Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies, Appropriations for 1999, p464

     …based on respiratory effects, specifically, vascular congestion, peribronchiolar edema, hemorrhagic alveoli, and congestee capillaries in the lungs (IRIS).