"stop the job" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "stops the job",
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        "singular",
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    },
    {
      "form": "stopping the job",
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        "participle",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopped the job",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopped the job",
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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            [
              61,
              73
            ]
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          "ref": "1999, Stanley Hall, quoting train driver in the 1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Hidden Dangers: Railway Safety in the Era of Privatisation:",
          "text": "Blea Moor to Carlisle, derailed blocking both roads. Can you stop the job between Kirkby Stephen and Blea Moor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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          ],
          "ref": "2018 April 21, “What the drivers think of the ‘66s’…”, in RAIL Magazine:",
          "text": "Just one ‘in traffic’ failure in ten years for me. But it was a good ’un and stopped the job entirely for a few hours...!",
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        },
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              42,
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          "ref": "2025 April 29, Paul Darlington, “Railway 200: Signalling”, in Rail Engineer Magazine:",
          "text": "However, any power or equipment failures ‘stop the job’ and are disruptive to railway operations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To completely stop all traffic."
      ],
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        [
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          "completely"
        ],
        [
          "stop",
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        ],
        [
          "traffic",
          "traffic"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, rail transport, colloquial) To completely stop all traffic."
      ],
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        "railways",
        "transport"
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, the, job."
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          "the",
          "the#English"
        ],
        [
          "job",
          "job#English"
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  ],
  "word": "stop the job"
}

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    {
      "form": "stops the job",
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        "singular",
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "form": "stopped the job",
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    },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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          "ref": "1999, Stanley Hall, quoting train driver in the 1995 Ais Gill rail accident, Hidden Dangers: Railway Safety in the Era of Privatisation:",
          "text": "Blea Moor to Carlisle, derailed blocking both roads. Can you stop the job between Kirkby Stephen and Blea Moor.",
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              77,
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          ],
          "ref": "2018 April 21, “What the drivers think of the ‘66s’…”, in RAIL Magazine:",
          "text": "Just one ‘in traffic’ failure in ten years for me. But it was a good ’un and stopped the job entirely for a few hours...!",
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        },
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              42,
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          ],
          "ref": "2025 April 29, Paul Darlington, “Railway 200: Signalling”, in Rail Engineer Magazine:",
          "text": "However, any power or equipment failures ‘stop the job’ and are disruptive to railway operations.",
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        }
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        "To completely stop all traffic."
      ],
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        "(UK, rail transport, colloquial) To completely stop all traffic."
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, the, job."
      ],
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          "the",
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        ],
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          "job",
          "job#English"
        ]
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  ],
  "word": "stop the job"
}