stoppage : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stoppage	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for stoppage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stoppage 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" Synonym(s): arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" Synonym(s): blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" Synonym(s): stop, stoppage
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
stoppage /sto'pj/ n. Extreme {lossage} that renders something (usually something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage* was caused by a {fried} transformer."
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
stoppage /sto'pj/ Extreme {lossage} that renders something (usually something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage* was caused by a {fried} transformer." [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-24)