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Obstruction
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stoppage
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Word definitions for stoppage in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN time ▪ But deep into first-half stoppage time , O'Leary's outstretched leg caught Yorke in full flight. ▪ Ferguson raged at the fourth official when he indicated four minutes of stoppage time , insisting that it should ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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" [syn: arrest ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A pause or halt of some activity. 2 Something that forms an obstacle to continued activity, a blockage.
Usage examples of stoppage.
It is competent for a State to require adequate local facilities, even to the stoppage of interstate trains or the rearrangement of their schedules.
The stoppage had taken me out of action for no more than three to five seconds.
The discharge is variable as in nasal catarrh with more or less difficult nasal breathing, the stoppage changing from one nostril to the other.
I am no longer troubled with headache and stoppage of the nose, my stomach is in good order, and I enjoy three hearty meals daily without any bad feelings.
Few there are who have not felt the agony of colic pain, due to stoppage of digestion.
Then, after a week or two intervening, there may be another complete stoppage, attended, as before, with intense suffering, which will have to be again relieved by the use of an instrument.
I sent for the best doctor in Listowell and I still got worse, and he said I might live three or four weeks, but there was no stoppage of the disease.
Kuhne and Steiner is that immediately on the stoppage of light there is sometimes a sudden increase in the retinal current, before the usual recovery takes place.
The suffering on account of the partial stoppage of oversea circulation was counteracted to some extent by a sensational decline in the price of the necessaries of life.
The stoppage sent up the prices for meat, butter and fruit in the markets of the United Kingdom.
To account for the stoppage of the railway traffic, the authorities in Perth were informed by wire that a great train disaster had occurred.
Next morning he attended a conference of the managers of the chief local mines and promised that the stoppage of traffic would not last for over five days, on his part.
At the first stoppage a middle-aged woman entered the compartment, taking a seat by the farther window, but at Midbrook, about three-quarters of the way to London, we were joined by a man, who lowered himself gently into the seat facing my own, with his face towards the engine.
The clerks whose duty it was to check and tally the goods took their meals at different hours to avoid a stoppage of work and my men ate their food, which was brought to them by wives, mothers, or daughters, in the sheds.
I voted for this stoppage because I think we should reevaluate this whole thing.