'Stoppage' definitions:
Definition of 'stoppage'
From: WordNet
noun
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]
noun
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]
noun
The act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" [syn: stop, stoppage]
Definition of 'Stoppage'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stoppage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abdominal epilepsy,
- access,
- acquired epilepsy,
- activated epilepsy,
- affect epilepsy,
- afterthought,
- akinetic epilepsy,
- apodosis,
- apoplexy,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- attack,
- autonomic epilepsy,
- bar,
- barrier,
- bell,
- bind,
- blank wall,
- blind alley,
- blind gut,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- bottleneck,
- bureaucratic delay,
- cardiac epilepsy,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cecum,
- cessation,
- check,
- checkmate,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clog,
- clonic spasm,
- clonus,
- coda,
- conclusion,
- congestion,
- constipation,
- consummation,
- convulsion,
- cortical epilepsy,
- costiveness,
- crack of doom,
- cramp,
- cul-de-sac,
- culmination,
- cursive epilepsy,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- cutoff,
- dead end,
- dead stop,
- deadlock,
- death,
- debarment,
- decease,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- denouement,
- destination,
- destiny,
- detention,
- determent,
- deterrence,
- discouragement,
- diurnal epilepsy,
- doom,
- double take,
- dragging,
- eclampsia,
- effect,
- embolism,
- embolus,
- end,
- end point,
- endgame,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilepsia,
- epilepsia gravior,
- epilepsia major,
- epilepsia minor,
- epilepsia mitior,
- epilepsia nutans,
- epilepsia tarda,
- epilepsy,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- estoppel,
- expiration,
- falling sickness,
- fate,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final whistle,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- fit,
- focal epilepsy,
- forbiddance,
- foreclosure,
- forestalling,
- frenzy,
- full stop,
- goal,
- gorge,
- grand mal,
- grinding halt,
- gun,
- halt,
- hang-up,
- haute mal,
- hindrance,
- holdup,
- hysterical epilepsy,
- ictus,
- impasse,
- impediment,
- infarct,
- infarction,
- interim,
- izzard,
- Jacksonian epilepsy,
- jam,
- lag,
- lagging,
- larval epilepsy,
- laryngeal epilepsy,
- laryngospasm,
- last,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latent epilepsy,
- latter end,
- lockjaw,
- lockout,
- logjam,
- matutinal epilepsy,
- menstrual epilepsy,
- moratorium,
- musicogenic epilepsy,
- myoclonous epilepsy,
- nocturnal epilepsy,
- obstacle,
- obstipation,
- obstruction,
- obviation,
- occlusion,
- omega,
- paperasserie,
- paroxysm,
- pause,
- payoff,
- period,
- peroration,
- petit mal,
- physiologic epilepsy,
- preclusion,
- prevention,
- prohibition,
- psychic epilepsy,
- psychomotor epilepsy,
- quietus,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- reflex epilepsy,
- reprieve,
- resolution,
- respite,
- resting place,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- Rolandic epilepsy,
- rotatoria,
- sealing off,
- seizure,
- sensory epilepsy,
- serial epilepsy,
- sit-down strike,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- spasm,
- stalemate,
- stand,
- standoff,
- standstill,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stopping,
- stopping place,
- strangulation,
- strike,
- stroke,
- suspension,
- swan song,
- tardy epilepsy,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- tetanus,
- tetany,
- throes,
- thromboembolism,
- thrombosis,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- tonic epilepsy,
- tonic spasm,
- torsion spasm,
- traumatic epilepsy,
- trismus,
- ucinate epilepsy,
- visitation,
- wait,
- walkout,
- windup,
- work stoppage,
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