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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outage
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
power outage
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
power
▪ Because of frequent power outages, we kept kerosene lamps.
▪ Play was delayed for two hours by a power outage.
▪ From retail stores to hospitals to universities, doors remained open as back-up generators kicked in almost immediately following the power outage.
▪ The midday power outage also caused traffic snarls as police officers directed traffic through intersections whose signals had gone dark.
▪ But even the best wear out after repeated power outages and gradually lose their capacity to protect your equipment.
▪ She could not breathe on her own enough to survive a power outage longer than a breath or two.
▪ He said there was no power outage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A brief electrical outage had sapped its power.
▪ Because of frequent power outages, we kept kerosene lamps.
▪ During outages, as many as 20 have to be moved each day.
▪ Even a one-day outage, such as the one that occurred last June, can cost these giant companies $ 100 million.
▪ In recent years, the outage has been used to construct or commission major capital projects to extend the plants' capability.
▪ Play was delayed for two hours by a power outage.
▪ There is an alarm at the Mission Substation, Novak said, but it was not activated when the outage began.
▪ Twelve channels of the reactor were refuelled before the outage began and then the fuel route was taken out of service immediately.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outage

"period or condition in which electrical power is disconnected," 1903, American English; formed from out on model of shortage.

Wiktionary
outage

n. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.

WordNet
outage
  1. n. the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation

  2. a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers); "there will be a network outage from 8 to 10 a.m."

Wikipedia
Outage

Unavailability or decrease in quality of service due to unexpected behavior of that particular service, or an incident impacting consumers that results in a service not being delivered at a level they reasonably expected.”

Outage may refer to:

  • Network outage
  • Outing
  • Power outage
  • Sun outage

Usage examples of "outage".

It indicated a change since the power outage, at least, a change in where Algini estimated personnel were grouped, where they traveled.

That way an untimely power outage would not interrupt TRANSLTR during an important run.

She had asked what he would do if there was a power outage and he had to row across the finger to get home.

The utility company says there was no outage, nothing like that last night.

Seems there was a massive power outage up in Morningside Heights last night.

Two, the Morningside outage happened nearly an hour before our lights did their magic trick.

It was Alice who pointed out that since the cap was on the bottom of the tank, assuring gravity-feed in case of a power outage, they would have a flood on their hands without a hose or a siphon.

Was this power outage part of the same series of failures that had swept across France?

This power outage must have completely collapsed the power grid in this area.

Stick two people like this in an elevator, add one power outage, and watch the sparks fly .

Getting stuck in an elevator during a power outage was nowhere on her to-do list.

Dismissing the fruitless anger, she thought back over what the report had said about the power outage being responsible for the collapse.

No working lights could be seen anywhere along the street, so the outage obviously affected at least a sizable neighborhood.

There were more outages, and one that lasted until he was sure the pipes were in definite danger.

Those plans had worked to perfection: the system outages, the off-world deposits, the explosion at the party, even the unexpected arrival of the human captain and the necessity of incorporating his kidnapping into his agenda, all had gone off without a hitch.