stoppage

stop·page  (stpj)

n.

The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped; a halt: called for a work stoppage.

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stoppage [ˈstɒpɪdʒ]

n

1. the act of stopping or the state of being stopped

2. something that stops or blocks

3. (Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a deduction of money, as from pay

4. (Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) an organized cessation of work, as during a strike

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stoppage

• armistice - Comes from Latin armistitium—from arma, "arms," and -stitium, "stoppage"—and means a temporary cessation from fighting or the use of arms, or a short truce.
• solstice - Derived from the Latin sol, "Sun," and stitium, "stoppage," as the Sun appears to stand still on the first day of winter.
• epoch - Pronounced EH-puhk, it is from Greek epokhe, "fixed point in time, stoppage," and it was first the initial point in a chronology from which succeeding years were numbered.
• stasis - A period of inactivity or equilibrium, from Greek histanai, "stoppage."

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	stoppage - the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" halt, hitch, stay, arrest, check, stop inaction, inactiveness, inactivity - the state of being inactive countercheck - a check that restrains another check logjam - any stoppage attributable to unusual activity; "the legislation ran into a logjam"
	2.	stoppage - an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" blockage, occlusion, closure, block, stop breech closer, breechblock - a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing impedimenta, obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment - any structure that makes progress difficult plug, stopple, stopper - blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly vapor lock, vapour lock - a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor)
	3.	stoppage - the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" stop human action, human activity, act, deed - something that people do or cause to happen stand-down, standdown - (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action haemostasia, haemostasis, hemostasia, hemostasis - surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)

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stoppage

noun

1. stopping, halt, standstill, close, arrest, lay-off, shutdown, cutoff, abeyance, discontinuance a seven-hour stoppage by air-traffic controllers

2. strike, industrial action, walkout, closure, shutdown Mineworkers have voted for a one-day stoppage next month.

3. blockage, obstruction, stopping up, occlusion The small traffic disturbance will soon grow into a complete stoppage.

Translations

stoppage [ˈstɒpɪdʒ]

A. N

1. [of work] → paro m, suspensión f; (= strike) → huelga f

2. [of pay] → suspensión f; (from wages) → deducción f

3. (Sport) → detención f

4. (in pipe etc) → obstrucción f

B. CPD stoppage time N (Sport) → tiempo m de descuento

stoppage [ˈstɒpɪdʒ] n

(= strike) → arrêt m de travail

(mainly British) (SPORT) → arrêts mpl de jeu

(= deduction) [pay] → retenue f
stoppage time n (mainly British) (SPORT) → arrêts mpl de jeu

stoppage

n

(in work, game) → Unterbrechung f; (in traffic) → Stockung f; (in production etc, temporary, because of mechanical problems) → Unterbrechung f; (for longer time, because of strike etc) → Stopp m; (= strike) → Streik m; stoppage of work → Arbeitsniederlegung f

(of pay, leave, cheque) → Sperrung f; (of delivery, supplies etc) → Stopp m; (= deduction) → Abzug m

(= blockage) → Verstopfung f, → Stau m

stoppage [ˈstɒpɪdʒ] n (in pipe) → ostruzione f; (of work) → interruzione f; (strike) → interruzione f del lavoro; (from wages) → detrazione f, trattenuta