0 If a situation is deadlocked, agreement in an argument cannot be reached because neither side will change its demands or accept any of the demands of the other side:
2 used to describe a situation in which people cannot agree and no progress can be made:
Deadlocked configurations like these are called vicious circles.
It eventually paid a lump sum of $1,204,960 when a mixed commission deadlocked over individual awards.
What is the opposite of deadlocked (as an adjective)?
It is instructive to remember that this time last year the talks participants were still deadlocked on the decommissioning question.
Those nations cannot build on the existing foundations because they are deadlocked by vested interests such as the common agricultural policy.
Nothing has arisen so far from these talks; the position is deadlocked.
Both sides are deadlocked and neither gives the public impression that it genuinely wishes to reach a settlement.
It is particularly disturbing that in these circumstances, efforts to reactivate productive negotiations are deadlocked.
