"stoppage" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: stoppages [plural]
Etymology: From stop + -age. Etymology templates: {{af|en|stop|-age}} stop + -age Head templates: {{en-noun}} stoppage (plural stoppages)
  1. A pause or halt of some activity. Synonyms: hiatus, moratorium, recess, pause Translations (pause or halt of some activity): спиране (spirane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), прекратяване (prekratjavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), aturada [feminine] (Catalan), 停機 (Chinese Mandarin), 停机 (tíngjī) (Chinese Mandarin), seisokki (Finnish), katkos (Finnish), stholk [masculine] (Manx), stad [masculine] (Manx), sthappal [masculine] (Manx), neuhaaley (note: of milk flow) [masculine] (Manx), остано́вка (ostanóvka) [feminine] (Russian), просто́й (prostój) [masculine] (Russian), заде́ржка (zadéržka) [feminine] (Russian), parada [feminine] (Spanish), paro [masculine] (Spanish), ఆపుదల (āpudala) (Telugu), నిలుపుదల (nilupudala) (Telugu)
    Sense id: en-stoppage-en-noun-kSL5kDOB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -age, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Manx translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Telugu translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -age: 49 51 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 57 43 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 61 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 60 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Manx translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Telugu translations: 60 40 Disambiguation of 'pause or halt of some activity': 97 3
  2. Something that forms an obstacle to continued activity; a blockage or obstruction. Translations (something that forms an obstacle to continued activity): задръжка (zadrǎžka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), bloqueig [masculine] (Catalan), este (Finnish), tukos (Finnish), загво́здка (zagvózdka) [feminine] (Russian), bloqueo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-stoppage-en-noun-IVEvDmXv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -age, Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -age: 49 51 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 50 50 Disambiguation of 'something that forms an obstacle to continued activity': 4 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: stoppage time

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The laws are controversial. Forcing someone to work during a lawful strike is a major step. It was always likely to inflame a situation, and so it proved with LNER. ASLEF's counter-tactic came as a five-day walkout, which would have been the longest stoppage for many years had LNER not withdrawn its plan.",
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          "note": "of milk flow",
          "sense": "pause or halt of some activity",
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          "roman": "ostanóvka",
          "sense": "pause or halt of some activity",
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
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          "roman": "āpudala",
          "sense": "pause or halt of some activity",
          "word": "ఆపుదల"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "te",
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          "roman": "nilupudala",
          "sense": "pause or halt of some activity",
          "word": "నిలుపుదల"
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          "roman": "zadrǎžka",
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          "word": "bloqueig"
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          "sense": "something that forms an obstacle to continued activity",
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          "word": "загво́здка"
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      "sense": "pause or halt of some activity",
      "word": "నిలుపుదల"
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      "roman": "zadrǎžka",
      "sense": "something that forms an obstacle to continued activity",
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    },
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      "sense": "something that forms an obstacle to continued activity",
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      "word": "bloqueig"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something that forms an obstacle to continued activity",
      "word": "este"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something that forms an obstacle to continued activity",
      "word": "tukos"
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      "roman": "zagvózdka",
      "sense": "something that forms an obstacle to continued activity",
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      "word": "загво́здка"
    },
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      "sense": "something that forms an obstacle to continued activity",
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      "word": "bloqueo"
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  "word": "stoppage"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.