congestee

English

Etymology

congest +‎ -ee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒn.d͡ʒɛstˈiː/

Noun

congestee (plural congestees)

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

     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, page 289:

     …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 al., Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies, Appropriations for 1999, page 464:

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