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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STOPPAGE, n. The act of stopping or arresting progress or motion; or the state of being stopped; as the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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1: 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, stoppage]
2: 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, stoppage]
3: the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" [syn: stop, stoppage]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century the act of stopping ; the state of being stopped ; halt, obstruction <a stoppage in play>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the condition of being blocked or stopped. 2 a stopping (of pay). 3 a stopping or interruption of work in a factory etc.

Webster's 1913 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stoppages) 1. When there is a stoppage, people stop working because of a disagreement with their employers. (BUSINESS) Mineworkers in the Ukraine have voted for a one-day stoppage next month. = strike N-COUNT: oft supp N 2. In football and some other sports, when there is a stoppage, the game stops for a short time, for example because a player is injured. The referee may add some extra time at the end of the game because of this. (mainly BRIT; in AM, use time out) N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Obstruction, hindrance, interruption, prevention.

Moby Thesaurus

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