Crossword clues for stoppage
stoppage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stoppage \Stop"page\, n. The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "deduction from payment," from stop (v.) + -age. From late 15c. as "impediment, hindrance, obstruction;" 1650s as "act of stopping."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A pause or halt of some activity. 2 Something that forms an obstacle to continued activity, a blockage.
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, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop]
an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop]
the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" [syn: stop]
Wikipedia
Stoppage can refer to:
- an unplanned time-out in sport
- a worker's strike action
- a ceasefire in warfare
- Samvara in Jain philosophy
As a proper noun, Stoppage may refer to
- Stoppage (album), a 2009 album by Atanu Bhuyan
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.