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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
power outage
noun
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▪ From retail stores to hospitals to universities, doors remained open as back-up generators kicked in almost immediately following the power outage.
▪ He said there was no power outage.
▪ Play was delayed for two hours by a power outage.
▪ She could not breathe on her own enough to survive a power outage longer than a breath or two.
▪ The midday power outage also caused traffic snarls as police officers directed traffic through intersections whose signals had gone dark.
WordNet
power outage

n. equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails; "the ice storm caused a power outage" [syn: power failure]

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Power Outage

Power Outage may refer to:

  • Power outage, a term which refers to electrical power failure
  • "Power Outage" (Charmed), an episode of the television series Charmed

Usage examples of "power outage".

Not the laundromat, but the drugstore had been wide open, the doors chocked with rubber doorstops to let in a little cool air-the power outage had killed their air conditioning, of course.

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

He knows now that, otherwise, he'll have to trudge outside to the Casa Turbina during every storm to remain alert for a power outage.

Because things were still kind of busy in the county, with the continuing power outage in Pine Flats and cleaning up from the storm, Jackson couldn't devote a lot of time or manpower to finding him.

Why do they need the cops everywhere if this is just a power outage?

Made nervous by the storm, by the police siren and the fire whistle, by the subtle dislocation any power outage causes in the American psyche, and by steadily mounting atmosphere of unease as things somehow .

Made nervous by the storm, by the police siren and the fire whistle, by the subtle dislocation any power outage causes in the American psyche, and by the steadily mounting atmosphere of unease as things somehow .

A routine maintenance monitor detected a power outage here, the man explained.

There were reports of a man and a woman, both dressed in Victorian garb, seen in the area of the power outage and the disappearance.