Usually means: Barriers controlling water flow release.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word floodgates:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. floodgates: Merriam-Webster
  2. the floodgates: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. floodgates: Collins English Dictionary
  4. floodgates: Vocabulary.com
  5. Floodgates, floodgates: Wordnik
  6. floodgates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. floodgates: Wiktionary
  8. floodgates: Dictionary.com
  9. floodgates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Floodgates: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. floodgates: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. floodgates: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. floodgates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Floodgates: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Floodgates: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Floodgates: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See floodgate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (floodgate)

noun:  An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
noun:  (figuratively, extension) Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion, etc.
noun:  (obsolete) A stream that passes through a floodgate; a torrent.
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